Commons v. State

OPINION

ONION, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction of the misdemeanor offense of fraudulently substituting price tags in violation of V.T.C.A., Penal Code, § 32.47. The jury assessed punishment at a probated fine of $50.00.

The record reflects that appellant, while shopping in a Skaggs-Albertson store in Dallas County, removed a $1.79 price tag from a box containing liquid Tylenol and substituted therefor a $.99 price tag which she had taken from a box of Tylenol tablets. When she checked out at the cashier’s stand, she was charged $.99 for the liquid Tylenol. A Dallas police…