State v. Connors

The issue in this case is whether there was any necessity for the trial judge, in Department No. 18 of the Superior Court for King County, to declare a mistrial over the objection of the defendant. If there were such necessity, the defendant’s conviction, on a subsequent trial in Department No. 4 of the Superior Court for King County, can be affirmed1; if not, his plea of double jeopardy, on the subsequent trial, should have been sustained and the charge against him dismissed.

On the morning of May 2, 1960, Timothy Connors went to trial in Department No. 18 of the Superior Court for King…