State v. Bell

OPINION

FONES, Chief Justice.

We granted the State’s rule eleven application to review a decision of the Court of Criminal Appeals reversing the trial judge’s denial of probation to defendant.

The facts are briefly summarized as follows. John Bell, defendant herein, was a dock employee at Kleer-Yu Industries. Kleer-Vu, according to the testimony of Joe LaPorta, its operations manager, was experiencing employee theft. The company, through LaPorta, made an appeal to all plant employees to the effect that if the losses stopped, Kleer-Vu would “take our losses and suffer them” and no one would be…