Legal Opinion
Jefferson v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided April 12, 2006No. PD-0363-05PublishedCited by 291 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
OPINION
2Opinion of the Court · HerveyHervey, J.
in which MEYERS, KEASLER, HOLCOMB and COCHRAN, JJ., joined.
A jury unanimously found appellant guilty of the offense of injury to a child.1 The issue in this case is whether a jury instruction was required informing the jury that it also had to unanimously agree on at least one of these three theories in order to convict; (1) that appellant injured the child by commission (striking the child with his foot or with an unknown object), or (2) that appellant injured the child by omission by failing to prevent the child’s mother from injuring the child, or (3) that appellant injured the…
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