State v. Johnson

¶1 — On July 28, 2008, Elma Police Officer Anthony Duane Hayden caught Bradley Johnson removing copper from a locomotive in the Puget Sound Pacific Railroad yard in Elma, Washington. A jury found Johnson guilty of second degree burglary, in violation of RCW 9A.52.030, as charged. Johnson appeals his conviction, arguing that (1) a locomotive is not a railway car and that, therefore, insufficient evidence supports the jury’s verdict and (2) the trial court erred by admitting a receipt found on Johnson at the time of his arrest showing that the day before his arrest in the railroad yard, he had…