Who are incompetent.
Applied in 75 court decisions — leading case 103 Wash. 2d 165 - State v. Ryan (1984)
Most recently applied in State Of Washington, V. Christopher Fields (July 2024)
1986 c 195 s 2; Code 1881 s 391; 1877 p 86 s 393; 1869 p 103 s 386; 1863 p 154 s 33; 1854 p 186 s 293; RRS s 1213.
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.
The following persons shall not be competent to testify:
(1) Those who are of unsound mind, or intoxicated at the time of their production for examination, and
(2) Those who appear incapable of receiving just impressions of the facts, respecting which they are examined, or of relating them truly.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.