Deason v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S AND STATE’S PETITIONS FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

DUNCAN, Judge.

The appellant was found guilty of indecency with a child by the trial court and assessed a punishment of five years in the Texas Department of Corrections. V.T. C.A. Penal Code, § 21.11.1

The First Court of Appeals reversed the appellant’s conviction and remanded the case to the trial court for a new trial in an unpublished opinion. Deason v. State, No. 01-86-00716-CR, 1987 WL 17278 (Tex.App.—Houston [1st] 1987), pet. granted. The court of appeals’ reversal was premised on the admittance of a videotaped…