State ex rel. Sowders v. Superior Court
Washington Supreme Court
Application for writ of prohibition, filed in the supreme court February 4, 1919, to prohibit the superior court for Pierce county, Clifford, J., from sentencing a convicted child to the penitentiary.
1Opinion of the CourtMount, J.
This is an application for a writ of prohibition against the superior court of Pierce county.
It appears from the application that the relator is a child under the age of sixteen years, and that, on the 20th day of November, 1918, he was charged by the prosecuting attorney with the crime of murder in *685the first degree. Upon a trial of that charge to a jury on the 8th day of January, 1919, he was convicted of the crime of manslaughter. Thereafter the trial court overruled a motion in arrest of judgment, and declared that it would sentence the relator to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a…
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