The Audience of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has sentenced a woman to pay 600 euros, half of which correspond to the price of a television that she appropriated when she was evicted from the house where she lived. lived for rent.
The other 300 euros are the fine imposed by the Chamber for considering her the author of a minor crime of misappropriation.
The sentence issued by a Court of Arona and ratified now declares as proven facts that on February 10, 2021, the tenant, when leaving the house located in Guide of Isora as a result of a judicial release, he took with him a 32-inch plasma television valued at around 300 euros.
The TV had been made available to the woman inside the rented house during the term of the contract but it was not owned by the tenant.
Not agreeing with the judgment Initially, the defendant appealed it to the Court, which has now come to ratify it in all its extremes and rejects the arguments of the woman in the sense that there was no evidence to demonstrate with full certainty that she was the author of this crime.
But the truth is that the defendant did not even attend the trial in which the owner of the house presented an account of the events to which the Chamber gives “full credibility” by finding no reason to doubt it.
Given the absence of the accused, the sentence had to be based solely on the testimony of the complainant, so in these cases it must be the magistrate who assesses or not the credibility of his words.
Once the hearing has been held and the appeal has been filed, the Court confirms the resolution issued in its entirety, considering that in the first instance there was sufficient evidence and that it was also validly obtained and practiced.
In the second instance, the woman was released from paying the costs, although she must face those generated in the first.
