Jones v. State

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice CARTER.

Kelley Allen Jones had known Angela Rains for only a short time, but they had just agreed to move into the same motel room and share expenses. That same night, Rains brought her fourteen-year-old daughter, B.S.S., to the motel. The child went to sleep on the floor and, when Rains returned from an errand, she saw Jones next to B.S.S. with “his hand down in her pants.” Jones was found not guilty of indecency with a child, but guilty of the lesser included offense of attempted indecency with a child. The jury assessed punishment at ten years’ confinement and a…