State v. Morgan

Horowitz, A. C. J.

Defendants, Otis Lee Morgan and Tommie Smith, were convicted of grand larceny after a trial to a jury. Both defendants appealed but the defendant Smith dismissed his appeal. The jury could have found the following facts:

On the morning of September 14, 1968, at approximately 1:15, Mr. Loree was sitting alone in the driver’s seat of his car, which was then parked in a vacant lot at 14th and Fir Streets in Seattle, Washington. The window next to him was rolled down. While so sitting he was approached on the driver’s side by defendant Smith who several times asked Mr. Loree for…