State v. Schrader

— This case is about the sanity of a defendant at the time of his trial, when the jury found he was sane when he committed the crime with which he was charged. Its history is very unusual.

In November, 1913, the prosecuting attorney of Sno-homish county filed an information charging the appellant with the crime of the murder of his wife. On the 12th of that month, he was arraigned hut stood mute, and the court entered a plea of not guilty for him and appointed an attorney to defend him. On the following day, his attorney entered an additional plea to the effect that, at the time of the alleged…