Hawkins v. State

OPINION ON REMAND

BRIGHAM, Justice.

We assess whether a person can be held criminally responsible for injury to a child at the hands of a parent where the defendant has done nothing more than observe the assault. Terry Hawkins brings four points of error challenging his conviction for injury to a child by omission. Tex.Penal Code Ann. § 22.04 (Vernon 1994). He claims the trial court erred in failing to grant his Motion in Arrest of Judgment, in overruling parts of his Motion to Quash the Indictment and in overruling his objections to various trial exhibits. We affirm.

FACT SUMMARY

Hawkins lived…