State v. Brew
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from Superior Cowrt, San Juan County. Information against Thomas Brew, charging him, with two other parties, with stealing certain carpenters’ tools, “of the value of fifty dollars.” From a judgment of conviction defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Dunbar, J. —
The only question that can be considered by the court in this case is the sufficiency of the indictment. No statement of facts has been settled or certified, and a certificate of the clerk of what occurred at the trial could not be notice to this court. The office of a statement of facts is to bring to the notice of this court the very questions sought to be brought to its notice by the certificate of the clerk. In this case the indictment, in substance, charges the crime of grand larceny, committed by stealing a lot of carpenter tools,…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- McCarty v. StateWashington Supreme Court · 1890
- State v. HoodSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1864
- State v. HartSupreme Court of Iowa · 1870
- State v. BeattySupreme Court of Missouri · 1886
- State v. BuckSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1859
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3Cited by10 opinions
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- State v. StrumSupreme Court of Iowa · 1918
- State v. HibberdOregon Supreme Court · 1927
- State v. FortuneSupreme Court of Iowa · 1923
- Bone v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1904
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