State v. Fackrell

— The jury found appellant guilty of four crimes as charged in the amended information.

Appellant urges that the trial court erred when it permitted the deputy prosecuting attorney to continue to assist in the trial, as counsel for the state, after he had testified concerning the circumstances surrounding one of the written confessions claimed to have been made by appellant.

Appellant’s argument is based upon an alleged violation of Canon of Professional Ethics 19, 34A Wn. (2d) 133, which reads as follows:

“When a lawyer is a witness for his client, except as to merely formal matters, such as…