State v. Fasick

Eddie Fasick and his wife and Frank Ryan were prosecuted upon an information charging them with murder in the first degree, for the unlawful premeditated killing of one Charles R. Harris, in Snohomish county, Washington, on or about September 29, 1926. At the trial, the court directed a verdict in favor of Ryan. Mrs. Fasick was found not guilty. Eddie Fasick was found guilty of murder in the second degree, and has appealed from a judgment and sentence on the verdict.

The evidence was circumstantial. All of the parties were residents of Seattle. The Fasicks and Harris had been friendly, the men…