Downing v. State

OPINION

HILL, Justice.

Larry Chris Downing, Jr., appeals his conviction by a jury of the offense of injury to a child. The jury assessed his punishment at forty years in the Texas Department of Corrections. In three points of error, Downing contends the evidence is insufficient to support his conviction, and the trial court erred by failing to instruct the jury on the lesser-ineluded offense of reckless injury to a child and the law of exculpatory statements.

We affirm, because: we find the evidence is sufficient to support the conviction; the trial court did not err by failing to instruct the…