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CITY OF SEATTLE v. HILL

No. 38978.

72 Wn.2d 786 (1967)

435 P.2d 692

THE CITY OF SEATTLE, Respondent, v. WAYNE J. HILL, Appellant.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

December 21, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Luvern V. Rieke, Wettrick, Toulouse, Lirhus & Hove, Arnold J. Barer, and Michael H. Rosen, for appellant.

A.L. Newbould and J. Roger Nowell, for respondent.

Peter Barton Hutt, Richard A. Merrill, Covington & Burling, James A. Holman, and Elliott, Lee, Carney, Thomas & Smart, amici curiae.

HALE, J.

Is chronic addictive alcoholism a disease? Is it a disease that relieves one of liability under the criminal laws prohibiting drunkenness and disorderly conduct in public? Are city ordinances which forbid public drunkenness, and disorderly conduct induced by drunkenness, unconstitutional when applied to chronic addictive alcoholics? This case began with one of the two million arrests for public intoxication made annually in this country. See President's Commission...

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