(DOWNLOAD) "Washington v. Grove" by Supreme Court of Washington # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Washington v. Grove
- Author : Supreme Court of Washington
- Release Date : January 21, 1965
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 54 KB
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This is an appeal from a conviction of first degree murder. The assignments of error are such that only a brief reference to the facts is required. The victim lived with her daughter and son-in-law, the defendant. At a time when the wife was in the hospital, the mother came to a violent end. The defendant was charged with her murder. When the police were called, they found the body of the victim at the bottom of the stairs leading to the basement. There were five lacerations of the skull, bruises about the lips and chin, and fractures of the fingers and hands, with a number of cuts on the hands. While in jail, the defendant wrote a letter to his wife at the hospital. In it he attempted an explanation of a cut on his face and the broken fingers of his mother-in-law by stating that, on the night before her death, the mother-in-law was in the kitchen, standing on a chair putting a vase away; that she slipped, called to the defendant, and he ran in and caught her as she fell; that in the process his face was scratched; that the mother-in-law caught her hand on the stove, and complained of pain. The defendants letter to his wife was given to a jail guard, unsealed, pursuant to jail procedures respecting censorship of outgoing mail from prisoners. The letter was censored and marked with a large "C" to indicate this. The existence of the letter was discovered by the prosecution when a friend of the wife told an investigator that the defendants wife had shown her the letter.