State v. McGonigle

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dunbar, J.

The record in this case shows that on the 11th of August, 1895, in Yakima county, Washington, one J. M. Eaves, accompanied by his wife and daughter, went to the residence of Byron McGonigle, the father of the appellant in this case. The appellant at that time made his home with his father. The avowed object of the visit was to demand some explanation from the appellant McGonigle for certain slanderous stories which he was charged with having circulated concerning the daughters of the said Eaves. According to the undisputed testimony, upon…