Legal Opinion

Splawn v. State

Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)

Decided March 29, 2005No. 06-03-00243-CRPublishedCited by 34 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

Opinion by

Chief Justice MORRISS.

Life imprisonment, on each of the two charges 1 of aggravated sexual assault of a child and indecency with a child, resulted from Chad Anthony Splawn’s single jury trial. 2 None of Splawn’s ten points of error attacks the sufficiency of the evidence, so we discuss the evidence only as necessary to address the points Splawn raises.

We affirm Splawn’s conviction on both charges, affirm the mandatory life sentence on the aggravated sexual assault of a child conviction, and reverse his life sentence on the indecency with a child conviction, remanding the…

2Cases cited31 opinions

  1. Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  2. Almanza v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1985
  3. Hernandez v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
  4. King v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2000
  5. Hutch v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1996

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3Cited by34 opinions

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  4. Baker v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)2009
  5. Richardson v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2005

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