State v. Heath
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Thurs-ton county, Mitchell, J., entered April 1, 1909, upon a trial and conviction of the crime of assault.
1DissentFullerton, J.
(dissenting) — I am unable to concur either in the reasoning or the conclusion of the majority as expressed in the foregoing opinion. The case itself is unimportant, and so far as it affects the immediate actors, might be allowed to pass without notice, but the principle announced by the decision is, to my mind, far reaching, and such a radical departure from the rules of criminal pleading heretofore thought to be governing in this state, that I am justified in expressing the grounds of my dissent.
The majority hold, as I understand the opinion, that it is no longer sufficient in this state,…
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