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Ex Parte Smith

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  • 645 S.W.2d 310
  • 1983 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 929

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  • holding that theft statute requires only statutorily prescribed intent \to deprive the owner of property\ and not \an independent culpable mental state\ with respect to appropriating property without owner's consent
  • “[T]he definition [of theft] requires a specific intent „to deprive the owner of property.‟ No doubt the Legislature was satisfied that its definition met the traditional mens rea requirement of the criminal law.”

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Judges: Clinton, Onion, Odom, Miller

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