Garza v. State

FISH, Justice.

Sammy Conrad Garza was convicted by a jury of aggravated kidnapping and sentenced to seventeen years imprisonment. For the reasons to be stated, we sustain five of his nine grounds of error and reverse and remand for a new trial.

In the late afternoon of June 9, 1978, the complaining witness C_, a twelve-year old female, was playing with an eight-year old girl friend in the trailer park where C-lived. Appellant drove up to the pair in a pickup truck with a camper on the back and asked for directions to the home of the Waltons. C_ gave him directions and he drove away. A short…