State v. Leosis

On July 5, 1929, the prosecuting attorney of Spokane county charged the appellant, in an information containing three counts, with the violation of the criminal laws of the state of Washington, and on August 22,1929, he filed with the clerk of the superior court of that county a list of the state’s witnesses. Thereafter, on the same day, and with the knowledge of appellant’s counsel, Mr. Edward M. Connelly, the court entered an order setting the case for trial on September 12, 1929, on which date the case was called for trial, a jury was impaneled and sworn to try the case, the opening…