Legal Opinion
State v. Stiltner
Washington Supreme Court
Decided December 27, 1962No. 36040PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWeaver, J.
— Did the trial court err when it denied defendant the right to call the deputy prosecuting attorney as a defense witness?
Defendant was charged, tried, convicted, and sentenced for the crime of robbery. A codefendant was dismissed at the end of the state’s case for want of identification.
The prosecuting witness, Harold Peden, was a reluctant one; so reluctant, in fact, that he was held in jail for 3 months prior to trial as a material witness.
The brief of defendant’s court-appointed counsel poses the question above stated. Defendant, as was his right (see State v. Mode, 55 Wn. (2d) 706, 710,…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- State v. SullivanWashington Supreme Court · 1962
- State v. LeeSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1943
- Ryan v. RyanWashington Supreme Court · 1956
- State v. ModeWashington Supreme Court · 1960
- State v. AllgoodWashington Supreme Court · 1957
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3Cited by20 opinions
- State v. SimpsonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1985
- Ullmann v. StateSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1994
- Douglas Stiltner v. B. J. Rhay, Superintendent, Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla, WashingtonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1967
- State v. HogervorstNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 1977
- State v. WorthenUtah Supreme Court · 1988
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