State v. Cartwright

Some individuals cannot stand sudden prosperity. Defendant made a conspicuous but unlikely display of affluence, and it caused his undoing when a jury found him guilty of burglary.

Mark Drobney’s All American Service Station at 9th and Birch Streets in Walla Walla was burglarized during the late hours of December 27 or early morning hours of December 28, 1967. At defendant’s trial, Mr. Drobney testified that, when he closed the station on the night of the burglary, he left approximately $425 in currency in the station and a large amount of loose coins and coin rolls in the cash register, along…