Patterson v. State

OPINION

DAVID L. RICHARDS, Justice (Assigned).

Introduction

Appellant Cletus Schwana Patterson is the mother of two children, Sarah, age 11, and James,1 age 9. Sometime during the early morning hours of April 30, 1997, appellant’s former boyfriend, Bobby Woods, entered appellant’s residence through a window and kidnapped both children. Woods drove them a distance, seriously wounded ard abandoned James *299in a graveyard, and killed Sarah at another location.

Woods was later tried and convicted for his crimes.2 Appellant was prosecuted for two counts of the felony offense of injury to a child by…