Urdiales v. State

OPINION

Before ESQUIVEL, BUTTS and CANTU, JJ. CANTU, Justice.

Appellant was indicted by a Val Verde County Grand Jury for the offense of theft, $20,000 or more, in a three count indictment.

The second and third counts were eliminated when the trial court granted appellant’s motion to quash based on the omission of the essential allegation that the appropriation was “without the owner’s effective consent.”

Trial was before a jury upon an allegation that the theft was committed by appellant by obtaining property without the effective consent of the owner because the owner, by reason of mental…