State v. Evans

Defendants assign as error misconduct of the district attorney in making his opening statement to the jury to the effect that at the time of the arrest the defendants put the officer making the arrest “through an ordeal”.

The circumstances hearing on the case, as the testimony indicated, which it seems necessary to refer to, are as follows: On September 3, 1932, the defendants came to Wallowa county and obtained a fire permit at the forest office at Wallowa, Oregon, to build a camp fire in the Joseph Creek, Peavine and Broady Creek country in the north part of Wallowa county. George Rogers,…