[DOWNLOAD] "State V. Hiatt" by Supreme Court of Washington # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: State V. Hiatt
- Author : Supreme Court of Washington
- Release Date : January 10, 1936
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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The appellants Marinoff and Hiatt were charged, together with Oscar Wold, J. L. Hanford, and Theo Fergeson, with the crime of murder in the first degree. Marinoff was charged as an accessory before the fact and the others as direct participants. A trial was had to a jury. At the close of the state's case the prosecutor acquiesced in a directed verdict of not guilty as to the defendant Wold. The case as to the other defendants was submitted to the jury resulting in a verdict finding each of the four guilty of manslaughter. The defendant Fergeson, who admittedly fired the fatal shot, was given a jail sentence of one year with credit thereon for time spent in jail awaiting trial. The defendant Hanford was sentenced to one year in jail and the sentence was suspended. The defendants Marinoff and Hiatt were each given a sentence