STATE v. SLAUGHTER

No. 38695.

70 Wn.2d 935 (1967)

425 P.2d 876

THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, Respondent, v. WILLIE TILLMAN SLAUGHTER, Appellant.

The Supreme Court of Washington, Department One.

March 30, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward M. Lane, for appellant (Appointed counsel for appeal).

John G. McCutcheon and Hugh E. Fountain, Jr., for respondent.


HALE, J.

The injury produced by a weapon may be more telling evidence of a crime than the weapon itself. Defendant doubts this truism and appeals his conviction of assault in the second degree because, although no weapon was found or introduced in evidence, the trial court had the jury answer a special interrogatory asking whether defendant had been armed with a deadly weapon.

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