State v. Gillingham

The defendant was charged by information with the crime of grand larceny, alleged to have been committed as follows:

“That the said Hubert Byron Gillingham, Jr., in the County of Grant, State of Washington, on or about the 17th day of February, 1948, then and there being, wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously did take, steal and carry away about 804 pounds of copper wire of the value of more than $25.00, to-wit: of the value of $104.50 in lawful money of the United States, the property of Alec Cook, with the intent to deprive and defraud the said Alec Cook thereof.”

The cause proceeded to trial…