Willis v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S AND THE STATE’S PETITIONS FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

McCORMICK, Presiding Judge.

A jury found appellant, Barry O’Neal Willis, guilty of theft for which he received a sentence of two years confinement. He appealed. The Dallas Court of Appeals reversed appellant’s conviction finding that the trial court had erred in refusing to submit in its jury charge an instruction concerning appellant’s good faith purchase. Willis v. State, 724 S.W.2d 87, 91 (Tex. App.-Dallas 1986). The lower appellate court also decided that the statutory presumption provided in Texas Penal Code Section…