State v. Ollison

A jury found appellants guilty of larceny by trick, device and false and fraudulent representations and pretenses. Mrs. Edna B. Greene, who testified that the defendants had taken $1,000 from her by substituting a roll of paper for her $1,000 in currency, supplied the main evidence supporting the verdict.

Mrs. Greene said that appellants, seemingly strangers to each other, had approached her on the downtown streets of Tacoma on December 10, 1963, seeking both a place to stay and a safe place to keep some money one of them showed her. She told them she could help them and suggested that the…