State v. Dressel

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Miller, J.:

The defendants, Elmo Dean Dressel, Sam McHugh Webb, and Robert Willis Strickland, Jr., were each convicted of one count of attempted felony theft, K.S.A. 21-3301 and K.S.A. 21-3701, and six counts of felony theft, K.S.A. 21-3701, following a nine-week jury trial. They appealed, and the Court of Appeals reversed the convictions. State v. Dressel, 11 Kan. App. 2d 552, 729 P.2d 1245 (1986). We granted the State’s petition for review on February 27, 1987.

The charges arose from activities at Cargill’s soybean receiving and processing plant in…