Morter v. State

OPINION

ROBERTS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for injury to a child. The court assessed punishment at three years’ confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections.

The record reflects that on May 3, 1975, the appellant went to the trailer house where he lived with a woman and her three children. As he approached the door, one of the children, Mark, was in the kitchen alone cooking or toasting some bread. Mark was six years old. Appellant knocked on the door and, when he finally entered, the kitchen was full of smoke and Mark had thrown the bread out the back door. In order to…