a member of the King County Police Department deliberately injected evidence that the defendant had a parole officer and repeated it immediately when the defense motion for a mistrial was denied; a new trial was ordered after posttrial reargument
How later courts described this case
- a member of the King County Police Department deliberately injected evidence that the defendant had a parole officer and repeated it immediately when the defense motion for a mistrial was denied; a new trial was ordered after posttrial reargument
- cited with approval in State v. Marks, 71 Wash.2d 295, 302, 427 P.2d 1008 (1967)
- cited with approval in State v. Marks, 71 Wn.2d 295, 302, 427 P.2d 1008 (1967)
- trial court order granting new trial
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Hill, J.
(concurring in the result)- — I concur in the result. My reason is epitomized in the next to the last sentence of the majority opinion, “We are not disposed to interfere with the discretion the trial court exercised.”
Finley, C. J., Donworth, and Hamilton, JJ., concur with Hill, J.