Boudreaux v. State

OPINION'

Opinion by

Justice GRANT.

Jimmie Boudreaux appeals from a conviction for placing a serial number on a vehicle with the intent of changing the identity of the vehicle. Boudreaux pleaded not guilty, but was convicted by a jury. He was sentenced to a $5,000 fine and five years and six months of confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, to run consecutively with a previous sentence for an unrelated theft conviction.

On appeal, Boudreaux contends

1. the trial court committed reversible error in denying him an instructed verdict, because the State failed to prove the essential…