Skillern v. State

OPINION

EVELYN V. KEYES, Justice.

Appellant, Melissa Ann Skillern, was convicted by a jury of a single count of misapplication of fiduciary property valued between $20,000 and $100,000 from an elderly person.1 The jury assessed her punishment at fifty-four months’ confinement and a $10,000 fine and recommended that the prison term be suspended. The trial court pronounced the sentence in accordance with the jury’s verdict, suspended appellant’s prison term for ten years, and set the conditions of appellant’s community supervision, which included $24,000 in restitution and 90 days in jail. In…