State v. Finrow

Defendant appeals from a justice court conviction of vagrancy. He had been charged with being a “lewd and disorderly person.”

The state now appeals from an order of dismissal entered at the close of the state’s evidence

for the reason that the plaintiff, State of Washington, did not produce sufficient evidence to sustain the burden of proving that the defendant was a lewd and disorderly person ...

By a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence, defendant (respondent) admits its truth, and all inferences that reasonably can be drawn from it. He also requires us to interpret the evidence in the…