Baker v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JOE SPURLOCK, II, Justice.
Appellant, James Charles Baker, appeals his conviction of indecency with a child, see TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. sec. 21.11 (Vernon 1989), tried before a jury. The jury assessed punishment at two years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections, probated. Appellant appeals on four points of error. We find appellant’s first point of error dispositive. The cause is reversed and appellant acquitted.
The complainant, who was eleven years old at the time of the alleged offense, testified that she lived in Carrollton and had befriended a girl in her neighborhood…
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