Jean-Phillipe v. State

We affirm appellant’s conviction of dealing in stolen property. There was sufficient evidence that appellant pawned a DVD player which he knew, or should have known, was stolen. . Appellant told a detective that “he knew that it )vas stolen and that he made a mistake.” Appellant’s story was that the DVD player was received by his friend as payment in a drug transaction, and that he knew he was taking a risk in pawning the item. Receiving property as payment for illegal drugs is the type of “unusual manner of acquisition” that tends to show guilty knowledge in a dealing in stolen property…