Legal Opinion

State ex rel. Brockway v. Whitehead

Washington Supreme Court

Decided December 11, 1915No. 12881PublishedCited by 9 opinions

Appeal from an order of the superior court for King county, Albertson, J., entered June 2, 1915, quashing an alternative writ of prohibition, upon sustaining a demurrer to the petition.

1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, J.

Relator was charged in the justice court of King county with the offense of misconduct of a public officer. He was convicted after a trial held before respondent’s predecessor in office, and thereafter perfected an appeal to the superior court. When an appeal is taken, the statute, Rem. & Bal. Code, § 1921 (P. C. 287 § 397), directs the filing of a transcript by the justice, “of the conviction and other proceedings in the case.”

*550In lieu of the transcript of the proceedings, respondent’s predecessor filed a certificate reciting that, after the trial, all of the papers and files in the case had…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Treharne v. MatsonIndiana Court of Appeals · 1911

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. O'CONNOR v. MatzdorffWashington Supreme Court · 1969
  2. State v. SedamIdaho Supreme Court · 1940
  3. State Ex Rel. McFerran v. Justice Court of Evangeline StarrWashington Supreme Court · 1949
  4. City of Seattle v. FilsonWashington Supreme Court · 1982
  5. State v. AlbergWashington Supreme Court · 1930

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