DocketNumber： 06-08-00135-CR
Filed Date： 2/25/2009
Status： Precedential
Modified Date： 9/7/2015
James Felton Williams appeals his conviction of infliction of serious bodily injury to a six-month-old boy, R.H. (1) R.H. died while being treated for the injuries he sustained. Williams was sentenced to fifty years' imprisonment in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice-Correctional Institutions Division, and was ordered to pay a $10,000.00 fine. (2)
Williams raises three points on appeal wherein he alleges: (1) the evidence was legally and factually insufficient to support the conviction; (2) the jury charge was defective; and (3) he was deprived of the effective assistance of counsel because his trial counsel's failure to object to the jury charge constituted ineffective assistance of counsel.
Because the issues raised in each appeal are identical, for the reasons stated in our opinion dated this day in Williams v. State, cause number 06-08-00134-CR, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.
Jack Carter
Justice
Date Submitted: February 19, 2009
Date Decided: February 25, 2009
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1. This case was transferred to this Court by the Texas Supreme Court pursuant to its docket equalization efforts. See Tex. Gov't Code Ann. § 73.001 (Vernon 2005). We are unaware of any conflict between precedent of the Fifth Court of Appeals and that of this Court on any relevant issue. See Tex. R. App. P. 41.3.
2. There is a companion case to this (our cause number 06-08-00134-CR) which regards the serious injury inflicted by Williams on the twenty-three-month-old sister of the victim here. Williams was sentenced to forty years' imprisonment, to run concurrently with the sentence in this case, plus a $10,000.00 fine. Williams was tried for both cases in a single proceeding.