State v. Ash
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Sullivan, J., entered April 12, 1911, upon a trial and conviction of manslaughter.
1Opinion of the CourtMorris, J.
Appellant was tried upon an information charging murder in the first degree, and was convicted of manslaughter, from-which he appeals.
The main assignments of error are based upon the instructions of the court submitting the crime of manslaughter to the jury, it being contended that there was no evidence supporting such an instruction, and hence it was error for the court to give it. It will not be necessary to review the evidence to ascertain if there was evidence upon which the instruction submitting manslaughter could be sustained. The *195state concedes there was none. In referring to the…
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