Cates v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

DUNCAN, Judge.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of injury to a child pursuant to V.T.C.A. Penal Code, § 22.04. The trial court assessed punishment at ten years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections and a fine of $2,000.00. We granted the appellant’s petition for discretionary review to determine if the court of appeals was correct in its determination that appellant’s oral confession was not a product of “custodial interrogation” and consequently the prophylactic warnings enunciated in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86…