9.20.030 Definition – Defense.
This section is included in your selections.
A. “Theft” means:
1. To wrongfully obtain or exert unauthorized control over the property or services of another or the value thereof, with intent to deprive him of such property or services; or
2. By color or aid of deception to obtain control over the property or services of another or the value thereof, with intent to deprive him of such property or services; or
3. To appropriate lost or misdelivered property or services of another, or the value thereof, with intent to deprive him of such property or services.
B. In any prosecution for theft, it is a sufficient defense that the property or service was appropriated openly and avowedly under a claim of title preferred in good faith, even though the claim be untenable.