Robinson, Leo Demory

OPINION

in which Keller, P.J., and Hervey, Yeary, and Newell, JJ., joined.

The court of appeals affirmed Robinson’s conviction for failing to report under the sex-offender registration requirements. We must decide what degree of mental culpability the statute requires and whether to consider a trial judge’s findings of fact and conclusions of law in a sufficiency of the evidence review. We hold that a conviction under Article 62.012 requires knowledge or recklessness only to the duty-to-register element of the offense, and that an appellate court should disregard the trial judge’s findings of…