State v. Reed

— The prosecuting attorney of Snohomish county, by information filed in the superior court, charged that the defendant Reed, in that county, did carnally know and abuse a girl of the age of thirteen years, not his wife. A trial upon the merits in the superior court resulted in a verdict finding the defendant guilty as charged, upon which, following the overruling of his motion for a new trial, judgment was rendered against him accordingly, from which he has appealed to this court.

It is first contended that the trial court erred in refusing to grant appellant a new trial upon the ground that…