Holz, Barbara

IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS

OF TEXAS

PD-1786-09

BARBARA HOLZ, Appellant

v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS

On Discretionary Review

from the Sixth Court of Appeals,

Marion County

Womack, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Keller, P.J., and Price, Johnson, Keasler, Hervey, Holcomb, and Cochran, JJ., joined. Meyers, J., did not participate.

We granted discretionary review in this case to determine whether a non-expert property owner's testimony about the cost of repairing or restoring his damaged property can ever be sufficient without further evidence to prove the pecuniary-loss element of a…