State v. Zappia

MOLLOY, Judge.

Joe Arthur Zappia, Jr., was convicted of grand theft of an automobile. His trial was to a jury. He complains on this appeal that reversible error was committed through improper cross-examination, admission of improper and prejudicial testimony, insufficiency of the evidence and failure of the trial court to properly instruct the jury on circumstantial evidence.

At approximately 12:01 a. m., of July 23, 1966, the complainant, Bradley Conger, while sitting inside his apartment in the Citation Gardens Apartment complex, in Tucson, Arizona, heard a car start which he recognized to be…