Ex Parte Amezquita

OPINION

in which PRICE, WOMACK, HOLCOMB and COCHRAN, JJ., joined.

In deference to the trial court’s findings of fact and conclusions of law, which support its recommendation to grant the relief that applicant has requested, the Court grants relief.

On February 6, 1998, the complainant in this case was brutally beaten at her place of employment, Burk’s Plumbing,1 a business co-owned by her father. Two days before this assault, she had had a heated verbal altercation with applicant, who was working there at the time of the argument. Applicant was employed by a bail-bond company,2 but had been…