Luna v. State

OPINION

RICK STRANGE, Justice.

Tracy Luna was indicted for capital murder. The jury convicted her of the lesser included offense of causing serious bodily injury to a child and assessed her punishment at ninety-nine years confinement and a $10,000 fine. We affirm.

I. Background Facts

Luna and Angel Victor Vasquez were common-law married. They had two daughters, four-year-old B.N.L.V. and two-year-old Natalie Vasquez. During the early morning hours of May 11, 2005, emergency officials were dispatched to Luna and Vasquez’s house because of a report that a two-year-old child was having cardiac…