Askari v. State

OPINION

Opinion by

Chief Justice MORRISS.

A jury found Asiya Hosain Askari guilty of violating Section 31.03 of the Texas Penal Code, Texas’ consolidated theft statute, by collecting Texas welfare benefits through deception. 1 ’ See Tex. Pen.Code Ann. § 31.03 (Vernon 2003). The State asserted at trial that Askari fraudulently claimed her husband, who was earning several thousand dollars each month as a Houston car salesman, did not live in her household, thereby enabling her to receive public assistance to which she was not entitled. On appeal, she challenges the sufficiency of the evidence and…