Tissier v. State

OPINION

EVANS, Chief Justice.

A jury found appellant, Robert Tissier, guilty of the felony offense of injury to a child, and assessed his punishment at confinement for 35 years and one day.

Appellant lived with the five-year-old complainant’s mother, and took care of the complainant while the complainant’s mother was away at work.

The complainant’s injury was discovered when the complainant’s mother took him to a pediatrician. The complainant had been vomiting for several days, and his mother thought he had caught a virus from which she and appellant had just recovered. The pediatrician diagnosed…