Billy Dean Butler v. State

NUMBER 13-12-00608-CR COURT OF APPEALS THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG BILLY DEAN BUTLER, Appellant, v. THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee. On appeal from the 156th District Court of Bee County, Texas. MEMORANDUM OPINION Before Justices Benavides, Perkes, and Longoria Memorandum Opinion by Justice Benavides By one issue, appellant, Billy Dean Butler, appeals his conviction for aggravated kidnapping. See TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. § 20.04 (West 2011). Butler asserts that the trial court abused its discretion by admitting unauthenticated and inadmissible text messages into evidence.…