State v. George
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Yakey, J., entered November £3, 1909, upon a trial and conviction of murder in the first degree.
1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, J.
Arthur W. George, appellant, shot and killed his wife, Elizabeth George, on the 13th day of May, 1909. He was later convicted by a jury of the crime of murder in the first degree, and brings this case to our court upon several assignments of error. We shall discuss only those having merit.
After appellant had committed the crime of which he was convicted, he had some negotiations with Fred H. Peterson, Esquire, a member of the Seattle bar, with reference to his defense. Mr. Peterson had been his attorney in a divorce suit in which a decree of divorce had been rendered nearly three years…
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