Whitley v. State

SUMMERS, Chief Justice.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of the second degree felony offense of injury to a child. The jury assessed his punishment at twenty years in the Texas Department of Corrections. Appellant raises six grounds of error on appeal.

Connie Louann Whitley, a thirty-seven month old female child, was brought to Nacogdoches Medical Center Hospital about midnight on March 17, 1980, by her father, Thermon Leon Whitley, appellant, and her stepmother, who were traveling through Nacogdoches enroute from Arkansas to the Houston area.

The child was covered with bruises. She was not…