Garza v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• observing that legislature gave “expansive meaning” to definition of “owner” “to give ownership status to anyone with a rational connection to the property”
• explaining that penal code section 1.07(a)(35)(A)’s definition of ―owner‖ eliminates distinctions between general and special owners
• stating the Penal Code’s definition of owner is “expansive” and “give[s] ownership status to anyone with a rational connection to the property”
• determining that it was proper for the State to have alleged in its indictment that a computer company’s employee was the “owner” of stolen property, as a 8 company’s employee can be considered a “special owner” of the property under the theft statute
• affirming theft conviction when corporate security investigator was identified in indictment as special owner of property actually owned by corporation, and he testified on corporation’s behalf at trial
• “As a proper special owner, [an employee of a business] was competent to attest to the value of the stolen property....”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

43 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Morgan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-09-28· cited 138×
• Alexis Elaina Walker v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2018-02-21· cited 39×
• Gloria Sandone v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2013-01-17· cited 33×
• Bruce Randol Merryman v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2012-11-30· cited 24×
• Kent, Kevin Lavelle
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-02-24· cited 20×
• Leocadio Ramirez Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2014-02-12· cited 17×
• Morrow v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-02-19· cited 13×
• Binnion v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-06-29· cited 8×
• McCurdy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2018-05-08· cited 8×
• Kevin Lavelle Kent v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-08-28· cited 7×
• Dustin Deutsch v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2018-10-23· cited 5×
• Carl Wade Curry v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2014-03-06
• Ex Parte Kenneth Jannereth
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2013-12-12
• Dennis James Wilhite v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2013-10-10
• Rodgers, Edwin DeWayne v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2013-02-21
• Bartlome, Michael William v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2013-02-21
• Shawn Frank Butler v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2012-04-19
• Jeremy John McCoy v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2016-05-04
• Kent, Kevin Lavelle
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-03-03
• Kent, Kevin Lavelle
  Texas Supreme Court· 2015-04-20

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Byrd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-03-30· cited 373×
• Freeman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-04-02· cited 145×
• Tita v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-09-10· cited 78×
• Harrell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-05-05· cited 65×
• State v. Weaver
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-11-18· cited 48×