Legal Opinion
Giddens v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 10th District (Waco)
Decided May 13, 2008No. 10-07-00076-CRPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BILL VANCE, Justice.
A jury found David Michael Giddens guilty of both capital murder and injury to a child by omission in the death of his three-month-old adopted son. The capital murder conviction carried an automatic life sentence, and the jury assessed punishment on the injury-to-a-child-by-omission charge at life in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice with a $10,000 fine. Gid-dens appeals on nine issues. In the first seven issues, Giddens challenges the jury charge and the legal and factual sufficiency of the evidence to support his convictions. In the remaining two issues,…
2Cases cited31 opinions
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- Johnson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2000
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