State v. Carter

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gordon, J.

The appellant was convicted in the superior court of King county of the crime of manslaughter, and sentenced to imprisonment in the state penitentiary at Walla Walla for a period often years, from which judgment and sentence he has appealed.

The information upon which he was tried charged him with the murder of one Charles D. Ling. The deceased — -a Chinaman — was cook, and the appellant was a deck hand on the steamer Idaho, plying between the city of Seattle and down sound ports. It appears from the record that the appellant complained of the…