Wells v. State

*202OPINION ON STATE’S MOTION FOR REHEARING

DOUGLAS, Judge.

On original submission, the panel reversed three theft convictions on the ground that the State failed to prove that “3-W Appliance & Service, Inc.,” the alleged owner, did not consent to appellant’s appropriating corporate funds to his own use.

If the panel opinion were adopted, it would in effect make a corporate charter a license to steal, because it would be impossible to commit theft from a corporation.

A corporation can be an owner of property under V.T.C.A., Penal Code, Section 1.07(24), which provides that “owner” means a person and…