State v. Thorne

This is an appeal from an oral ruling of the superior court of Snohomish county denying a motion to vacate a judgment and conviction and quashing an order to show cause, and is a companion appeal to Thorne v. Callahan, reported hereinabove, at p. 43.

The appellant in this case was charged by information with the crime of carnal knowledge of his eight-year-old daughter. To this information, the appellant pleaded “guilty” upon arraignment and was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Washington state penitentiary.

The formal judgment, sentence and commitment was entered in this cause on June 5,…