State v. Beck

(concurring) — Beck was tried and convicted of contributing to the delinquency of a minor in a nonjury trial in the Roxbury District Court on August 10, 1977. He appealed the conviction to the King County Superior Court for a trial de novo which was set to be heard on December 6, 1977. Prior to that date, Beck's counsel had filed several motions, including a motion to dismiss the charges based upon the unconstitutionality of the statute under which the complaint had been filed. The trial judge to whom the case was assigned concluded that the notice raising the constitutional issue gave too…