Israel Brice Deere v. State

In The
Court of Appeals
Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana
No. 06-19-00098-CR
ISRAEL BRICE DEERE, Appellant
V.
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
On Appeal from the 6th District Court
Lamar County, Texas
Trial Court No. 28092
Before Morriss, C.J., Burgess and Stevens, JJ.
Memorandum Opinion by Justice Stevens
MEMORANDUM OPINION
A Lamar County jury convicted Israel Brice Deere of aggravated sexual assault of a child
and indecency with a child by sexual contact. 1 See TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. §§ 21.11, 22.021. On
appeal, Deere argues that the trial court erred by reading the transcript of witness testimony in
response to a jury note that did not adequately specify the disagreement about the testimony. He
also argues that the trial court erred by admitting hearsay and by creating a false impression that
Deere was charged with an additional offense.
In companion cause number 06-19-00097-CR, Deere raised these same issues in his appeal
from a conviction for indecency with a child by sexual contact. We addressed these issues in detail
in our opinion of this date on Deere’s appeal in cause number 06-19-00097-CR. For the reasons
stated therein, we likewise overrule Deere’s points of error here.
We affirm the trial court’s judgment.
Scott E. Stevens
Justice
Date Submitted: November 18, 2019
Date Decided: November 27, 2019
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1
Deere was sentenced to ninety-nine years’ imprisonment for aggravated sexual assault of a child and twenty years’
imprisonment for indecency with a child by sexual contact.
2