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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE
AT JACKSON
Assigned on Briefs July 9, 2002

STATE OF TENNESSEE v. MILA SHAW
Direct Appeal from the Criminal Court for Shelby County
No. 98-08948 Chris Craft, Judge

No. W2001-02430-CCA-R3-CD - Filed January 16, 2003
The defendant was found guilty by a jury of theft of property over ten thousand dollars ($10,000) and sentenced to four years and six months in the county workhouse.  She contends the evidence was insufficient to sustain the conviction. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.

Tenn. R. App. P. 3 Appeal as of Right; Judgment of the Criminal Court Affirmed
JOHN EVERETT WILLIAMS, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which NORMA MCGEE OGLE and ALAN E. GLENN, JJ., joined.
Mozella Ross (at trial), and Gerald S. Green (on appeal), Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellant, Mila Shaw.
Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; J. Ross Dyer, Assistant Attorney General; William L. Gibbons, District Attorney General; and Teresa S. McCusker, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.
OPINION

I. Facts
The defendant, Mila Shaw, was indicted on July 21, 1998, on one count of theft of property over the value of $10,000, but under the value of $60,000, a Class C felony.  The indictment resulted from the following facts.  Ms. Wilhelmein Thompson died from breast cancer on March 25, 1997.
Shortly before her death, the defendant moved in with Ms. Thompson to assist her.  The defendant and Ms. Thompson had been friends for quite some time.  The defendant obtained a notarized power of attorney, signed purportedly by Ms. Thompson.
After Ms. Thompson

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