State v. Kwan

The defendants were charged by information with murder in the first degree. The trial resulted in a verdict of guilty as to each, with a recom mendation that the death penalty he not imposed. Each of the defendants was sentenced to a life term in the state penitentiary, from which judgments they appeal.

The appellants were charged with having shot one Lew Bow, in the city of Tacoma, at about four a. m., May 2, 1932. The appellants will be referred to as follows: George Kwan as Kwan, Hong Sing, alias Gilbert Hong, as Hong, Wong Choo as Choo, and Wallace Gilbert Lee as Lee. Bow died from the…