State Ex Rel. Comer v. Hall

The statute provides, as a penalty for commission of the crime (of which W. D. Comer was convicted on November 6, 1931, in the superior court for King county) of publishing a false statement of the amount of the assets of a savings and loan association,

“. . . imprisonment in the state penitentiary for not more than ten years, or by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, or by both.” Rem. Rev. Stat., § 2265.

On March 9, 1932, his motions prior to that date for new trial and arrest of judgment having been denied, the defendant appeared in court for sentence. Following the defendant’s…