State v. Barker

Appellant was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree. He appeals from the judgment pronounced thereon.

It appears that after the appellant was arrested he was taken to the city jail in Spokane, and while there was taken into the presence of the prosecuting attorney, a deputy sheriff, and two or three police officers, and questioned first in regard to his presence on the day of the murder. The appellant at first denied that he was at Medical Lake where the murder was committed on that day, but when told by the prosecuting attorney that he had proof of the fact that the accused was at…