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BOTTOM v. STATE

No. 2-92-239-CR.

860 S.W.2d 266 (1993)

Blane Adair BOTTOM, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, State.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

August 25, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ward Casey, Robert Ford, Forth Worth, for appellant.

Tim Curry, Dist. Atty., Betty Marshall and Charles M. Mallin, Assts., Francine Y. Lyles, David Escobar, Bobbie Yowell, Assts., for appellee.

Before HILL, C.J., and FARRIS and LATTIMORE, JJ.

OPINION

FARRIS, Justice.

A jury convicted Blane Adair Bottom of aggravated sexual assault of a child younger than fourteen years of age, see Tex.Penal Code Ann. § 22.021 (Vernon 1989), and sentenced him to fifty-years imprisonment. Bottom appeals, claiming the court abused its discretion in continuing the trial in his absence. Because Bottom was present when the jury was selected and his absence from...

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