State v. O'Donnell

— On the night of November 26, 1935, two police officers of the city of Seattle were shot to death in a tavern outside the north limits of the city. They had gone to the tavern in response to information that it was being burglarized. Subsequently, the appellants, together with Lester Rorick, were charged, by information in two counts, with the crime of murder in the first degree, in that, while in the commission of burglary, they fired the gun shots resulting in the death of the two officers.

Rorick pleaded guilty to the charge and testified as a witness for the state at the trial of the…