Gurrola, Maria v. State

COURT OF APPEALS

COURT OF APPEALS

EIGHTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

EL PASO, TEXAS

MARIA GURROLA,

Appellant,

v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,

Appellee.

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No. 08-01-00107-CR

Appeal from the

243rd District Court

of El Paso County, Texas

(TC# 20000D02316)

O P I N I O N

This appeal presents the question of whether one of two signatories to a joint checking account commits theft by depleting funds in that account without the knowledge of the other signatory. Finding that, as a matter of law, signatories to a joint checking account are co-owners of the funds therein, but further finding there is evidence the joint account was…