State v. Musselman
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Okanogan county, Neal, J., entered August 21, 1917, upon a trial and conviction of murder in the first degree.
1Opinion of the CourtWebster, J.
The defendant was convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree, and appeals. The only assignment of error it will be necessary to notice is that the court abused its discretion in denying appellant’s application for a continuance upon the ground of absent witnesses. The facts pertinent to this inquiry, briefly stated, are these: On July 12, 1917, the prosecuting attorney of Okanogan county filed in the superior court an information charging that, on July 6, 1917, the defendant committed the crime of murder in the first degree by shooting .and killing Opal Harmeson. On the same day,…
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