State v. Hettrick

Kelly, J. †

— The appellant was convicted by a jury of the crime-of manslaughter, after having been charged with first degree murder.

A factual background is necessary against which to consider the various alleged assignments of error. The original information charged the defendant with the crime of murder in the first degree in the following language:

He, the said Lawrence Albyon Hettrick, in the County of King, State of Washington, on or about the 29th day of August, 1963, with a premeditated design to effect the death of one Agnes Brueske, a human being, willfully, unlawfully and feloniously…