State v. Garrison

This is an application hv an inmate Of the criminal insane ward of the Washington state penitentiary for a trial upon the question of her present sanity. To the petition the trial court sustained a demurrer and entered a judgment of dismissal, from which the petitioner appeals.

The facts, as stated in the petition, are substantially the following:

The appellant, Buth Garrison, on March 20,1919, by information was charged with the murder of one Grace Storrs by administering a certain poison. To the information she pleaded “not guilty,” and interposed, in writing, a plea of insanity at the time…