[DOWNLOAD] "Thomas Barton Schalk and Robert Gary Leonard v. State Texas" by Supreme Court Of Utah ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Thomas Barton Schalk and Robert Gary Leonard v. State Texas
- Author : Supreme Court Of Utah
- Release Date : January 02, 1991
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 95 KB
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Appellants were convicted of theft of trade secrets. V.T.C.A. Penal Code ? 31.05. They pled not guilty to the indictments and were afforded a joint trial on the merits. A jury found both appellants guilty of the offenses as charged and assessed punishment at two years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections and a $5,000 fine for each. Appellants raised six points of error in the court of appeals, alleging the evidence was insufficient to establish trade secret status and mental culpability for the act of theft thereof, additional points concerning the authorization of the search, and an allegation of jury misconduct. The court of appeals affirmed appellants convictions in separate published opinions. Schalk v. State, 767 S.W.2d 441 (Tex.App.--Dallas 1988); Leonard v. State, 767 S.W.2d 171 (Tex.App.--Dallas 1988). Appellants petitioned this Court on six grounds for review, two of which we granted, to-wit: 1) "The court of appeals erred in holding that the evidence is sufficient to show that the so-called computer programs that were alleged in the indictment were trade secrets"; and 2) "The court of appeals erred in holding that the search warrant sufficiently described the magnetic tapes that were seized and that the magnetic tapes were not seized pursuant to a general exploratory search." We will affirm the court of appeals.