State v. Brent

On August 17, 1946, Harold Theodore Brent shot and killed Donald Caldbick at the Caldbick home near Oak Harbor, Island county, Washington. On November 21st, at the close of a long trial, a jury found Brent guilty of murder in the second degree. This appeal is from an order entered January 28, 1947, granting a new trial.

During oral argument here, respondent’s counsel repeatedly and vehemently asserted that a full and complete examination of all the evidence would inevitably convince any court that the conviction of his client was the sole and proximate result of an unlawful conspiracy between…