State v. Yee Guck
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: Robert Tucker, Judge. Department 1. Tee Guck, the defendant, with others, was indicted in Multnomah County for the crime of murder in the second degree committed by killing Chin Hong. Having been tried separately from his codefendánts, he was convicted, and, being aggrieved at the result appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBurnett, C. J.
The affray resulting in the death of the deceased was part of a tong war between rival Chinese factions and was staged in the streets surrounding a city block in Portland bounded on the south by Flanders Street, on the east by Sixth, on the north ,by Glisan, and on the west by Broadway. According to the story of the defendant, he and one of his codefendants known as Shee Fong were walking west on Flanders Street when they came to the northeast corner of the intersection of Flanders and Sixth Streets. About that time they saw members of a rival Chinese tong on the opposite side of the street.…
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