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- Title: State v. Dressel
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 12, 1987
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 59 KB
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The opinion of the court was delivered by 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 Wichita, Kansas. Webb, a truck driver, purported to deliver and unload soybeans at that plant. Payment for the soybeans was made by check, mailed to Webb's employer, the F & M Grain Company of Commerce City, Colorado. Dressel was a part owner of F & M and active in its operation. Defendant Strickland was employed by Cargill at the Wichita facility. His job was to weigh delivery trucks before and after unloading, a process which produces the measurements from which net delivery weight and payment are calculated. The State contended that Webb did not unload his cargo; Strickland managed to manipulate the scales to show large deliveries which were not made; and Cargill was thus defrauded when it paid for soybeans it did not receive.