State v. Anderson

Decision Date12 December 1892
Citation5 Wash. 350,31 P. 969
PartiesSTATE v. ANDERSON.
CourtWashington Supreme Court

Appeal from superior court, King county; T. J. HUMES, Judge.

Otto Anderson was convicted of burglary, and appeals. Affirmed.

Arthur E. Griffin, for appellant.

John F. Miller, Pros. Atty., and A. G McBride, Dep. Pros. Atty., for the State.

HOYT, J.

Defendant was duly convicted of the crime of burglary, and from the sentence therefor prosecutes this appeal. Two errors are assigned, the first of which raises the question of the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict, and the second the sufficiency of the information.

The ground upon which the information is attacked is that it does not affirmatively appear, upon the face thereof, that there was no grand jury in session, nor that the defendant had been committed by a magistrate on said charge. Neither of these objections can avail appellant. It is true that certain facts must exist before the prosecuting attorney gets jurisdiction of the case in such a manner as to be authorized to file an information against the defendant, but the statute nowhere makes it necessary that the existence or nonexistence of such facts should be made to appear upon the face of the information.

As to the first objection above stated, it is claimed that there was no sufficient proof that the defendant entered the building in question for the purpose of committing a crime. We are satisfied from the proofs that the defendant unlawfully entered said building; and if the provisions of Pen. Code,§, [1] can be sustained, the jury were justified in presuming the criminal intent from the fact of such unlawful entry. Besides, we think there was direct testimony tending to show that such entry was for the purpose of committing petit larceny. The proof showed, not only that the building had been unlawfully entered, but that the appellant, with another person, was actively engaged in ransacking a trunk found therein, and was putting aside certain articles of value found in said trunk, with the evident intention of taking them away. For this reason, we do not think that we should disturb this verdict, even although we should come to the conclusion that the presumption provided for in the section above referred to could not be drawn from the fact of unlawful entry. We see no reason, however, for holding that the legislature exceeded its power in providing that the presumption of...

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  • State v. Grimmett
    • United States
    • Idaho Supreme Court
    • July 1, 1920
    ...1 L. R. A., N. S., 626; Wigmore, Ev., sec. 1354; Faith v. State, 32 Tex. 373; State v. Kyle, 14 Wash. 550, 551, 45 P. 147; State v. Anderson, 5 Wash. 350, 31 P. 969; State v. Lawson, 40 Wash. 455, 82 P. 750.) RICE, J. Morgan, C. J., Budge, J., Concurring. BUDGE, J., Concurring in Part and D......
  • Bayless v. United States
    • United States
    • U.S. Court of Appeals — Ninth Circuit
    • July 19, 1967
    ...an unexplained act of breaking into another's building, has been provided by statute." At this point the author cites State v. Anderson, 5 Wash. 350, 31 P. 969 (1892). In the Washington statutes, Section 9.19.010 defines first degree burglary. Section 9.19.020, the section with which we are......
  • State v. Livengood
    • United States
    • Washington Court of Appeals
    • August 20, 1975
    ...273 (1971); State v. Reid, 74 Wash.2d 250, 444 P.2d 155 (1968); State v. Durning, 71 Wash.2d 675, 430 P.2d 546 (1967); State v. Anderson, 5 Wash. 350, 31 P. 969 (1892). However, the statute must now meet the test announced in State v. Odom, 83 Wash.2d 541, 520 P.2d 152 (1974), and State v. ......
  • State v. Potello
    • United States
    • Utah Supreme Court
    • December 13, 1911
    ... ... presumptive evidence of another fact." ... That, ... we think, was all that was here intended by the legislature, ... though, perhaps, not as aptly, expressed as it might be ... [40 ... Utah 68] In the case of State v. Anderson , 5 Wash ... 350, 31 P. 969, the court, in speaking of a statute which ... provided that a presumption of a criminal intent should ... follow the proof of an unlawful entry of a building, said: ... "It is the constitutional right of the defendant to ... demand proof of his ... ...
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  • In the Beginning: the Washington Supreme Court a Century Ago
    • United States
    • Seattle University School of Law Seattle University Law Review No. 12-02, December 1988
    • Invalid date
    ...147, 29 P. 995 (1892); State v. Carey, 4 Wash. 424, 30 P. 729 (1892); Wilson v. Beyers, 5 Wash. 303, 32 P. 90 (1892); State v. Anderson, 5 Wash. 350, 31 P. 969 (1892); DeMattos v. New Whatcom, 4 Wash. 127, 29 P. 933 (1892). 1893 cases declaring laws unconstitutional: McMurray v. Hollis, 5 W......

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