State v. Case

This appeal is based primarily upon misconduct of a deputy prosecuting attorney in the trial of the case.

There is a canon of ethics (No. 15) which states, in part:

“It is improper for a lawyer to assert in argument his personal belief in his client’s innocence or in the justice of his cause.” 34A Wn. (2d) 131.

It should be implicit that it is just as reprehensible for one appearing as a public prosecutor to assert in argument his personal belief in the accused’s guilt.

*68' The appeal is from a conviction of carnal knowledge. The prosecuting witness, the daughter of the defendant, was eighteen…