Wydell Lorraine Dixon v. State

OPINION

Sherry Radack, Chief Justice

A jury convicted appellant, Wydell Dixon, of four charges of cruelty to nonlives-tock animals, a state jail felony. See Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 42.092(b)(1), (c)(Vernon 2011). The trial court then assessed punishment at two years’ confinement, but suspended, and placed appellant under community supervision for five years’ on each charge, to be served concurrently. On appeal, appellant contends (1) the evidence, when measured under a hypothetically correct jury charge, was legally insufficient; the trial court erred by (2) overruling appellant’s motion to…