Short v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

TOM G. DAVIS, Judge.

Trial was before the jury upon appellant’s plea of not guilty of injury to a child. V.T.C.A. Penal Code, Sec. 22.04. After finding appellant guilty, the jury assessed punishment at eleven years. The conviction was affirmed by the Court of Appeals for the First Supreme Judicial District. See Short v. State, 658 S.W.2d 250 (Tex.App.—Houston [1st] 1984). We granted appellant’s petition for discretionary review in order to examine the Court of Appeals’ holding that certain remarks of the prosecutor made during jury…