Phillips v. State

I also dissent. While I do not particularly disagree with the views expressed by Judge Odom in his dissenting opinion, rather than enter into the squabble about the meaning and applicability of V.T.C.A. Penal Code, Section 1.061 and what the Legislature could have said but did not, it is enough for me that before there was a guiding statute relative to mistreatment of males this Court held that the word “child” applied “only to boys under the age of 14”2 and, when the Legislature did address the subject, it indicated agreement, albeit obliquely.3

The perplexity nagging the majority— the…