State v. Neal

PREWITT, Chief Judge.

Defendant was charged with stealing seven hundred dollars from an undercover highway patrolman “by deceit by purposely representing that the defendant would return to Trooper J.J. Bickers with cocaine in exchange for said U.S. Currency, which representation was known to defendant to be false and upon which representation Trooper J.J. Bickers relied.” A jury found defendant guilty and he appeals.

Defendant contends the evidence was insufficient to show that at the time he took the money and said he would “retrieve the cocaine” he had no intention of returning with it.

Defenda…