State Ex Rel. Bird v. Superior Court

(dissenting) — The reasons advanced in the majority opinion for disregard of the rules respecting appeals in criminal cases are not more co'gent than the excuses of the majority for flouting those rules in State v. Brown, 26 Wn. (2d) 857, 176 P. (2d) 293.

This court again holds that our solemn pronouncement in State v. Currie, 200 Wash. 699, 94 P. (2d) 754, that even in a criminal case we will not except a particular individual from the operation of a rule or excuse its violation in a particular instance, is meaningless, and that our adjudications are in the same class as a restricted railroad…