State v. Engstrom

Louis G. Engstrom was convicted of the larceny of a quantity of chocolate, and appeals from the sentence pronounced upon him.

At the time of the alleged theft, Engstrom was an employee of the Superior Candy & Cracker Company, a concern doing business in the city of Seattle. The principal witness against him at the trial was one Stern, a junk dealer, also doing business in the city of Seattle. Stern testified that, at various times, he had bought sacks and other forms of junk from the cracker company; that, at one of such times, he met Engstrom at the cracker company’s place of business, and…