Schalk v. State

APPELLANTS’ PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

MILLER, Judge.

Appellants were convicted of theft of trade secrets. V.T.C.A. Penal Code § 31.-05. They pled not guilty to the indictments 1 and were afforded a joint trial on the merits. A jury found both appellants guilty of the offenses as charged and assessed punishment at two years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections2 and a $5,000 fine for each. Appellants raised six points of error in the court of appeals, alleging the evidence was insufficient to establish trade secret status and mental culpability for the act of theft thereof,…