State v. Dixon

78 Wn.2d 796 (1971)

479 P.2d 931

THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, Appellant,

v.

AARON DIXON et al., Respondents.[*]

No. 40971.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

January 14, 1971.

Charles O. Carroll, Neal J. Shulman and David W. Hotchkin, for appellant.

Ronald J. Meltzer, Edmund J. Wood, and Michael H. Rosen, for respondents.

HALE, J.

Surround most any straightforward proposition with enough sophistry and it will vanish — or become unintelligible. The law, like other intellectual disciplines, has tried to cope with the sophistry brought to bear upon it by applying common sense. This has, on occasion,…