Sheppard v. State

OPINION

RICHARD L. BROWN, Justice.

See also Sheppard v. State, 634 S.W.2d 951 (Tex.App.—Fort Worth, 1982), a companion case.

This is an appeal from a conviction of theft of property of value over two hundred dollars and less than ten thousand dollars. The jury found the allegation of a prior conviction in the indictment to be true and assessed punishment at ten years confinement in The Texas Department of Corrections.

We affirm.

On October 17, 1977, appellant entered the shop area of the Wyatt Brake and Motor Company in Wichita Falls. A lone employee, on his lunch break at the time, observed…