Phea v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Joe Ben Phea was given a two year penitentiary sentence on a charge of theft, and appeals.

The State relies on circumstantial evidence and produced the testimony of William Cook, who drove a delivery truck for a wholesale grocery company. He had spent the day in the vicinity of Pampa and had collected, in cash and checks, about eleven hundred dollars. He came to a hotel after dark, registered, and went to his room accompanied by appellant, a negro bellboy. Cook left his room, had supper and visited with a brother, who was a bus driver out of Pampa. After ten o’clock he…