State v. Cooke

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction on four counts of the crime of grand larceny and a sentence on each count of not more than 15 years in the Washington state penitentiary, said sentences to run concurrently.

The defendant (appellant), Frank E. Cooke, was a salesman employed by Allied Service Company, a Minnesota corporation, which was a seller of cigar dispensing machines to local dealers and handled the wholesale marketing of cigars for the machines.

In early September, 1960, an advertisement appeared in two daily newspapers in the city of Spokane, and stated, very generally, the…