Every person of sound mind and discretion, except as hereinafter provided, may be a witness in any action, or proceeding.
RCW 5.60.020
Who may testify.
Applied in 19 court decisions — leading case 71 Wash. App. 164 - State v. Watkins (1993)
Most recently applied in State v. Brousseau (August 2011)
1986 c 195 s 1; Code 1881 s 388; 1877 p 85 s 390; 1869 p 103 s 383; 1854 p 186 s 289; RRS s 1210.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.