In re E.P.

OPINION

DAVID PURYEAR, Justice.

In December 2003, a Wal-Mart loss prevention officer named Roberto Galaviz saw E.P., who was fourteen years old, remove the price tags from merchandise worth a total of $21.94 and place the items in her pockets. When Galaviz stopped E.P. after she left the store, E.P. took the items from her pockets and handed them to Galaviz. E.P. was charged with intentionally and knowingly removing a writing with intent to defraud the property’s owner. See Tex. Pen.Code Ann. § 32.47 (West 2003). E.P. admitted that she took the price tags off the items and put the items in her…