Hilton v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
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…
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