State v. Rasmussen

The defendant, Rasmussen,-was charged by indictment in the superior court for Skagit county *177with, the commission of a felony. A trial in that court, sitting with a jury, resulted in a verdict of guilty, upon which judgment and sentence were rendered against him, from which he has appealed to this court.

After the impaneling and swearing of the jurors to try the case, and the prosecuting witness had been sworn and commenced to testify, it then appearing that the prosecuting witness was in a measure an adverse witness to the prosecution, the trial judge, of his own motion, seeming to see in the…