Johnson v. State

OPINION

DUNN, Justice.

A jury convicted the appellant of theft, and the court, after conducting a presen-tence investigation, sentenced the appellant to 10 years confinement.

The appellant was indicted for theft under Tex.Penal Code Ann. sec. 31.03 (Vernon 1974), and pursuant to Tex.Penal Code Ann. sec. 31.09, the indictment alleged a single scheme or continuing course of conduct involving 54 separate incidents.

The appellant met Bill Everett, who resides in North Dakota, in 1977 or 1978. The appellant approached Everett about putting together an exploration company in Houston funded initially by…