Samples v. State

OPINION

LATTIMORE, Justice.

Richard R. Samples, appellant, received a sentence of fifteen years imprisonment in the Texas Department of Corrections after a jury verdict of guilty for the offense of injury to a child. TEX.PENAL CODE ANN. sec. 22.04 (Vernon Supp.1988).

We reverse and remand.

In October 1986, Samples began living with Deborah Graham and her three children. On December 12, 1986, officers of the Arlington Police Department investigated an injury to one of Deborah Graham’s children, Daniel Graham. During the investigation, the police took a statement from Samples in which he admitted…