State v. Driscoll

The defendant appeals from a conviction of the crime of burglary in the second degree. The sole assignment of error is directed to the trial court’s refusal to require disclosure of the identity of an alleged police informer.

Upon the state’s case in chief, the evidence revealed the following: About 1:15 a. m., Sunday, May 28, 1961, the defendant was observed and apprehended by police officers inside a Seattle tavern; the front door had been forced and the till drawer was splintered; and the defendant signed the following statement:

“Sometime after midnite May 28, 1961 I left my apt [sic]…