YONKO v. STATE

No. 42117.

444 S.W.2d 933 (1969)

Laura YONKO, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied October 15, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles W. Fairweather, Amarillo, for appellant.

Tom Curtis, Dist. Atty., H. Bryan Poff, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Amarillo, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

The conviction is for theft of property over the value of fifty dollars; the punishment, two years.

The record reflects that a total of two hundred fifty dollars was stolen from a purse in the home of A. S. and Bertie Parker, both of whom were eighty years of age.

The sole contention of the appellant is "* * * the State failed to prove the element of taking, an essential element to the offense of theft."

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