GARZA v. STATE

No. 05-81-00085 CR.

632 S.W.2d 823 (1982)

Sammy Conrad GARZA, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Dallas.

Rehearing Denied May 17, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark F. Holland, J. Stephen Cooper, Dallas, for appellant.

Kathi Drew, Asst. Dist. Atty., Dallas, for appellee.

Before AKIN, VANCE and FISH, JJ.


FISH, Justice.

Sammy Conrad Garza was convicted by a jury of aggravated kidnapping and sentenced to seventeen years imprisonment. For the reasons to be stated, we sustain five of his nine grounds of error and reverse and remand for a new trial.

In the late afternoon of June 9, 1978, the complaining witness C______, a twelve-year old female, was playing with an eight-year old girl friend in the trailer park where C______ lived. Appellant drove up to the pair...

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