Hill v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANTS’ PETITIONS FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

MANSFIELD, Judge.

Appellants, husband and wife, were charged by separate indictments with the offense of injury to a child. Tex.Penal Code § 22.04. More specifically, they were charged with “intentionally and knowingly, by omission, [causing] disfigurement and deformity, serious bodily injury and serious physical and mental deficiency and impairment to their son, Stephen Hill, a child younger than fifteen years of age, by failure to provide food and medical care_”

The State filed notice of its intent to seek an affirmative finding that a…