Ramirez-Canales v. State

Appellant, Angel Ramirez-Canales, was charged by amended information with two counts of sexual battery by a person in familial authority (Counts I and II) and one count of lewd molestation by a person in familial authority (Count III). He was convicted and sentenced to thirty years in prison on Counts I and III and fifteen years in prison on the lesser included offense of attempted sexual battery on Count II. This appeal concerns only his conviction and sentence on attempted sexual battery (Count II). We reverse on that count alone, because the trial court erred in instructing the jury on…