Dillon v. State

OPINION

ODOM, Judge.

These are appeals from convictions for involuntary manslaughter in which Jeffery Dillon and Cindy Dillon pled nolo conten-dere to the court and received punishment terms of five years and three years respectively.

Appellants were indicted for murder under V.T.C.A., Penal Code Sec. 19.02, by failing to provide necessary food and medical care as was their duty as parents, as a result of which their infant child starved to death. They pled nolo contendere to the lesser included offense of involuntary manslaughter under V.T.C.A., Penal Code Sec. 19.05.

In their sole ground of…