Collins v. State

OPINION

DIES, Chief Justice.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of criminal mischief of property damaged or destroyed, value at least twenty dollars, but less than two hundred dollars. The court sentenced Appellant to serve 120 days in the county jail. Appeal has been perfected to this court on one point of error, viz.:

“The Honorable Trial Court erred in overruling Appellant’s timely Motion for Instructed Verdict because the State failed to put on sufficient evidence to prove an element of the offense, to-wit: Value.”

TEX.PENAL CODE ANN. sec. 28.06 (Vernon 1974) provides in part:

“(a) The amount…