Conduct denominated as theft in this part constitutes a single offense embracing the separate offenses referenced before 1989 as embezzlement, false pretense, fraudulent conversion, larceny, receiving or concealing stolen property, and other similar offenses.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-14-101
Consolidation of theft offenses
Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case Nijhawan v. Holder (2009)
Most recently applied in State v. Gentry (November 2017)
Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1.
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