Williams v. Brooks

Citations

• 95 Wash. 410
• 163 P. 925
• 1917 Wash. LEXIS 813

Syllabus

<p>False Impbisonment — Actions—Justification—Plea of Guilty. An action for false imprisonment does not lie where plaintiff, upon being arrested, pleaded guilty to the offense charged and paid the fine imposed by a justice of the peace, thereby establishing that the arrest was justifiable.</p> <p>Ceiminal Law — Judgment — Conclusiveness — Collateeal Attack — Jubisdiction. After pleading guilty to a statutory offense and paying the fine imposed by a justice of the peace, from which no appeal was taken, the judgment cannot be collaterally attacked in an action for false imprisonment on the ground that the statute had been repealed and that the justice was without jurisdiction.</p>