Hill v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

Appellant was convicted of the offense of rape of a child. Punishment was assessed by the jury at imprisonment in the Texas Department of Corrections for 99 years after having found the enhancement paragraph to be true. The conviction was reversed by the Dallas Court of Appeals in a published opinion by Justice Stewart, with a dissenting opinion by Justice Guillot. Hill v. State, 658 S.W.2d 705 (Tex.App.1983).

The Court of Appeals reversed the conviction finding the evidence insufficient to support the appellant’s conviction in absence of…