City of Tacoma v. Kitchen

The defendant, Kitchen, was, by complaint filed in the police court of the city of Tacoma, charged that he did “unlawfully drive an automobile, while intoxicated, upon a public street in the city of Tacoma,” in violation of the provisions of a certain ordinance of the city regulating traffic upon the streets of the city. Trial in that court resulted in the defendant being adjudged guilty, from which judgment he appealed to the superior court for Pierce county, wherein he was tried de novo in that court sitting with a jury, resulting in a verdict of guilty being rendered against him, upon…