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DESORMEAUX v. STATE

Nos. 09-10-00097-CR, 09-10-00098-CR.

362 S.W.3d 233 (2012)

Leo Thomas DESORMEAUX IV, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Beaumont.

Decided March 7, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sue Korioth , Special Prosecutor, Jasper County, Dallas, Steven Hollis , Crim. Dist. Atty., Jasper, for Appellant.

Bruce N. Smith , Jack Lawrence, Beaumont, for state.

Before McKEITHEN, C.J., GAULTNEY and HORTON, JJ.

OPINION

DAVID GAULTNEY, Justice.

A jury convicted Leo Desormeaux IV of capital murder and injury to a child. Because the State did not seek the death penalty, the capital murder conviction carried an automatic life sentence. See Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 12.31(a)(2) (West 2011); Tex.Code Crim. Proc. Ann. art. 37.071, § 1 (West Supp.2011). The jury assessed punishment for the injury-to-a-child offense at twenty years in prison and assessed a...

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