Butler, Billy Dean

OPINION

in which Keller, P. J., and Meyers, Keasler, Hervey, Alcala, Richardson and Newell, JJ., joined.

Appellant was convicted of the aggravated kidnapping of his girlfriend, Ashley Salas. On direct appeal, he complained that the trial court admitted certain text messages into evidence that Appellant claimed were not properly authenticated. The State introduced the text messages through Salas, who testified that she recognized Appellant’s phone number displayed on the text messages, that the text messages were from Appellant, and that Appellant even called her from that phone number at some…