State v. Nakashima

This is an appeal by the state of Washington from a judgment sustaining an objection to the introduction of evidence, and dismissing a criminal action.

The controlling question is the sufficiency of the information, the charging portion of which reads as follows:

“He, the said Masaji Nakashima, a male person, and she, said Tama Kawamura, a female person, in the county of King, state of Washington, on the 20th day of November, 1909, being then and there first cousins computing by the rules of the civil law, did then and there wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously have sexual intercourse together.”