Legal Opinion

Hilton v. State

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided October 6, 1983No. 2-83-100-CRPublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

JORDAN, Justice.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of causing bodily injury to a child 14 years of age or younger, under Tex.Penal Code Ann. sec. 22.04 (Vernon 1974), by inserting an object of an unknown nature into the vagina of a twenty-two month old child. He was assessed a ten year probated sentence.

The appeal is based upon three grounds of error.

We affirm.

This is a circumstantial evidence case, and in appellant’s first ground of error he attacks the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction, saying that such evidence amounts only to a “strong suspicion” or “mere…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Flores v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1977
  2. Stogsdill v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1977
  3. Cowan v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1978
  4. Wright v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1980
  5. Plunkett v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1979

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3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Perez v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District1986
  2. Perez v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1986
  3. United States v. CageCourt of Appeals for the Armed Forces · 1995

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