State v. Komok

This case involves the simple question whether Washington's theft statute, RCW 9A.56.020(1), retains the common law requirement of "intent to permanently deprive," although the language of the statute merely states "intent to deprive." We answer that it does not.

Petitioner Joseph A. Komok, age 16, was convicted in the Juvenile Department of the King County Superior Court under an information charging him with theft in the third degree. The trial court, the Honorable George T. Mattson, found him "guilty" of aiding and abetting his 14-year-old sister in taking a baseball cap, girls' stretch…