STATE v. MORLOCK

No. 43872.

87 Wn.2d 767 (1976)

557 P.2d 1315

THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, Respondent, v. TERRY M. MORLOCK, Appellant.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

December 2, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walstead, Mertsching, Husemoen, Donaldson & Barlow, by C.C. Bridgewater, Jr., for appellant.

Henry R. Dunn, Prosecuting Attorney, and James E. Warme, Chief Criminal Deputy, for respondent.


WRIGHT, J.

The questions involved herein relate to the constitutional prohibition against double jeopardy contained in both the state (Const. art. 1, § 9) and the federal (Fifth Amendment) constitutions, and the collateral estoppel rule.

Appellant threw a lighted firecracker from his vehicle on Interstate 5 in Cowlitz County on July 3, 1974. He was stopped by a state patrolman who asked all persons in the vehicle to get out. Appellant, upon leaving the...

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