State v. Moore

Appellant was arrested in a raid on the Crescent Rooms in Pasco on March 6, 1948. She was convicted of vagrancy, i.e., keeping a house of prostitution between February 1 and March 6, 1948. She urges that the evidence apart from a confession which she repudiated on the witness stand was not sufficient to sustain the conviction. Appellant relies upon the rule laid down in State v. Bestolas, 155 Wash. 212, 283 Pac. 687, that:

“Extrajudicial confessions or admissions, repudiated by the accused upon the witness stand, are, in the absence of corroborating testimony, either direct or circumstantial,…