State v. Ito

R. Ito, appellant, was charged and convicted of manslaughter in the killing of one Norris De Lane, a boy six years of age, on March 20, 1923, at a street intersection in the city of Seattle, by the reckless and unlawful driving of an automobile.

The first assignment is that the trial court erred in admitting the testimony of police officers concerning the search for a man named Tasucha, and the use of that name by the appellant in renewing his automobile license, upon the ground that it was irrelevant and immaterial. "When the boy was run over and killed by the automobile, the driver failed to…