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Criminal Law—Proximate Cause In Negligent Homicide, Gust S. Doces Jul 1963

Criminal Law—Proximate Cause In Negligent Homicide, Gust S. Doces

Washington Law Review

Defendant was charged with negligent homicide under RCW 46.56.0401 for causing the death of a pedestrian through the operation of a motor vehicle. The trial jury found the defendant guilty, but the trial judge entered an order arresting judgment and, in the alternative, granting a new trial. From this order the state appealed. In his trial memorandum, the judge ruled as a matter of law that the evidence was insufficient to show any causal relation between the defendant's state of intoxication and the resulting death to a pedestrian. The Washington Supreme Court in a 5-3 decision reversed and remanded with …


Criminal Law—Search Incident To An Arrest, Hayes Elder Jul 1963

Criminal Law—Search Incident To An Arrest, Hayes Elder

Washington Law Review

In a recent case, State v. Michaels, the Washington Supreme Court announced a new rule for search and seizure incident to an arrest: the purpose of the arrest circumscribes the area and nature of the search.


Conflict Of Laws—Statute Of Limitations; Criminal Law—Insanity—M'Naghten Rule Applied; Criminal Law—Presence Of Defendant At Trial; Civil Procedure—Motion For Involuntary Dismissal—Rule 41(B); Torts—Municipal Liability For Operation Of Fire Department;, Michael D. Garvey, Wayne Booth, Jr. Jul 1963

Conflict Of Laws—Statute Of Limitations; Criminal Law—Insanity—M'Naghten Rule Applied; Criminal Law—Presence Of Defendant At Trial; Civil Procedure—Motion For Involuntary Dismissal—Rule 41(B); Torts—Municipal Liability For Operation Of Fire Department;, Michael D. Garvey, Wayne Booth, Jr.

Washington Law Review

No abstract provided.


Criminal Law—Murder—Negligent Medical Treatment Intervening Between Defendant's Act And Decedent's Death, Charles B. Cooper Jul 1962

Criminal Law—Murder—Negligent Medical Treatment Intervening Between Defendant's Act And Decedent's Death, Charles B. Cooper

Washington Law Review

In reviewing a murder conviction, the Washington court recently was confronted with the problem of negligent medical treatment intervening between the defendant's act and the ensuing death. In affirming, the court apparently took the extreme position that proximate causation is solely a jury question, the inquiry on appeal being limited to a cause-in-fact analysis.


Thoughts On Capital Punishment, Arval Morris Sep 1960

Thoughts On Capital Punishment, Arval Morris

Washington Law Review

Legal practices vary in states which allow the death penalty, but a jury can usually levy or recommend life imprisonment. Nevertheless, capital punishment flourishes in states which provide the alternate penalty. In one way or another, this optional life-or-death feature of legal litany necessitates that jurymen answer: "Do you think this defendant ought to be killed?" Citizens shirk this decision and often refuse to serve on death penalty cases. If this practice of citizen disqualification becomes widespread, it may well raise the question eventually of whether the death penalty has systematically excluded citizens to such an extent that it no …


Criminal Law, Arval A. Morris Sep 1959

Criminal Law, Arval A. Morris

Washington Law Review

Covers the anti-shoplifting law.


Criminal Law, Timothy R. Clifford Jul 1959

Criminal Law, Timothy R. Clifford

Washington Law Review

Covers cases on the right to counsel—waiver—indigent prisoners and on aiding and abetting distinguished—effect of knowledge.


Criminal Law, Robert L. Fletcher Aug 1957

Criminal Law, Robert L. Fletcher

Washington Law Review

Covers perjury by deposition—an abortive redefintion.


Criminal Law, Stanley M. Johanson Jul 1957

Criminal Law, Stanley M. Johanson

Washington Law Review

Coves cases on appeal—preservation of grounds—misconduct of the prosecuting attorney.


Criminal Law, Theordore D. Zylstra Jun 1956

Criminal Law, Theordore D. Zylstra

Washington Law Review

Covers cases on: bigamy—necessity of proving continued cohabitation; aiding and abetting—presence with intent to render assistance; and negligent homicide—degree of negligence required.


Criminal Law, William E. Love Aug 1955

Criminal Law, William E. Love

Washington Law Review

Covers laws on abandoned iceboxes, duty of the sheriff to file complaints, indecent liberties, mandatory sentences for certain traffic violations, prisoners, and terms of sentences.


Criminal Law, Frank D. Howard, Phillip Offenbacker May 1955

Criminal Law, Frank D. Howard, Phillip Offenbacker

Washington Law Review

Covers cases on perjury and what constitutes a valid oath, burglary and the effect of possessing stolen property when the possession is not exclusive (Howard), and habeas corpus and the scope of inquiry and attack of illegal sentence before the sentence has been served (Offenbacker).


Criminal Law, Samuel F. Pearce May 1954

Criminal Law, Samuel F. Pearce

Washington Law Review

Covers cases on the equivocal plea of guilty, on obtaining money by false pretenses, and on punishment for automobile theft.


Administration Of Criminal Law, By Ernest W. Puttkammer (1953), Gerhard O.W. Mueller Feb 1954

Administration Of Criminal Law, By Ernest W. Puttkammer (1953), Gerhard O.W. Mueller

Washington Law Review

The author based his work on lectures given in his course on criminal law administration which he has taught at the University of Chicago Law School for a number of decades. During all these years he has kept in close touch with the profession and has been an active member of numerous commissions and organizations working for improvement of our criminal laws. His book, therefore, is based on the experience of practice. The conclusions are arrived at after thoughtful considerations by an author who has a deep interest in the subject. The book is written in a pleasant and lively …


The Case Of Decasto Earl Mayer And Mary Ellen Smith, Hayden H. Hilling May 1947

The Case Of Decasto Earl Mayer And Mary Ellen Smith, Hayden H. Hilling

Washington Law Review

On September 5, 1928, James Eugene Bassett left his sister's home at Bremerton, Washington, with the intention of returning that evening, but was never seen again. Bassett's disappearance aroused nationwide interest and he was made the object of a most intensive but unavailing search. The unanswered question remains: Could a legally sufficient case be made against any defendant for the murder of Bassett, assuming overwhelming evidence of the defendant's connection with whatever catastrophe may have befallen him, but almost no independent evidence that he was dead and not merely missing? Due to an unfortunate chain of events, the question was …