State v. Pearl

In this, and eighteen other like cases, upon motion of the defendant in each cause upon verdicts of acquittal, judgments were entered discharging the defendants and allowing each a statutory attorney’s fee of fifteen dollars. The judgment in each case was that the defendant be discharged, and that he recover of and from the state of Washington judgment for costs, to-wit the statutory fee of fifteen dollars. The state appealed from each of those judgments. Respondents have each moved to dismiss the several appeals.

After the filing of the motions to dismiss, the proser cuting attorney filed in…