Legal Opinion
State v. Darwin
Washington Supreme Court
Decided May 2, 1911No. 9019PublishedCited by 3 opinions
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for What-com county, Gilliam, J., entered May 24, 1910, dismissing a prosecution for libel, upon sustaining a demurrer to the complaint.
1Opinion of the CourtCrow, J.
The only question in this cause is the sufficiency of a criminal complaint, to which the trial judge sustained a demurrer. The state elected to stand upon the complaint, and has appealed from an order discharging the defendant.
The complaint, originally filed before a justice of the peace, omitting formal parts, reads as follows:
“T. S. Hamilton, being first duly sworn on his oath, deposes and says: That in Whatcom county, Washington, on or about the 12th day of April, 1910, the above named defendant, L. H. Darwin, did commit the crime of criminal libel as follows:
“Then and there being, the…
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