Hawkins v. State

Quillian, Presiding Judge.

Defendants, Patricia and Robert Hawkins, appeal their convictions of 13 counts of theft by taking. Robert Hawkins was an agent for the Atlantic & Pacific Life Insurance Company (A & P). His wife, Patricia, went with him so that he could gain entrance into homes where ladies were reluctant to let a man enter. She was also “in training” to become an insurance agent and assisted him in explaining things to applicants and sometimes made out the applications. Hawkins was instructed by A & P to have all premium checks made out to A & P and to transmit the checks to the…