FREEMAN v. STATE

No. 1135-83.

707 S.W.2d 597 (1986)

Gwendolyn Elaine FREEMAN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

April 2, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald H. Tonkin, Houston, for appellant.

John B. Holmes, Jr., Dist. Atty. & Timothy G. Taft, Richard Mason & John Phillips, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before the court en banc.


OPINION ON APPELLANT'S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

TEAGUE, Judge.

The question that we must resolve is whether, for purposes of our theft statute, see chapter 31, Penal Code, at the time of the commission of the alleged offense, Marsha F. Bourke, a security guard employed by Sears, Roebuck and Company, had the greater right to possession of property owned by that company than did Gwendolyn Elaine Freeman, hereinafter referred to as the appellant, a fellow...

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