CASTILLO v. STATE

No. 60519.

616 S.W.2d 620 (1981)

Lorenzo Andres CASTILLO, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Panel No. 3.

June 3, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adolfo Quijano, Jr., El Paso, for appellant.

Steve W. Simmons, Dist. Atty. and Leo B. Garcia, Asst. Dist. Atty., El Paso, Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for State.

Before ODOM, DAVIS and McCORMICK, JJ.


OPINION

ODOM, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for injury to a child. V.T.C.A., Penal Code Sec. 22.04. Punishment was assessed at imprisonment for twenty years.

Appellant first contends that the instant indictment was fundamentally defective in that it failed to allege that he committed the offense "by act" or "omission" as prescribed by the statute.1 We must reject this contention.

The indictment alleged...

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