McClaine v. Territory of Washington

The opinion of the court was delivered by

DüNBAr, J.

The record discloses that at a regular term of the district court of the counties of Thurston and Mason, held at the city of Olympia, at the December term of said court, an indictment was returned against the plaintiff in error, which indictment, omitting the entitling of the cause, reads as follows:

“Angus McClaine is accused by the grand jury of the Territory of Washington, for the counties of Mason and Thurston, of the crime of murder in the first degree, committed as follows: The said Angus McClaine, at the county of Mason, Territory of…