Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

A conviction for injury to a child after defendant's two children died in an accidental house fire while her boyfriend was babysitting them is reversed as the evidence of a criminally reckless mens rea and causation were legally insufficient to sustain the conviction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/03/2007
• Published 10/03/2007

Judges

Court

• Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Anthony C. Odiorne, Wichita Falls, for Appellant., John W. Brasher, Assistant District Atty., Wichita Falls, for State.