Allen v. State

OPINION

TIJERINA, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of the felony offense of theft. The jury assessed punishment at eight years’ confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections.

In his first ground of error, appellant alleges that the evidence is insufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he, acting either alone or as a party, unlawfully appropriated money from Diane McCro-han as charged in the indictment.

When a challenge is made to the sufficiency of the evidence, the standard for review in both direct and circumstantial evidence cases is whether any rational trier of fact could…