Chapman v. State

349 S.W.3d 241, 2011 Tex. App. LEXIS 7220, 2011 WL 3855889
CourtCourt of Appeals of Texas
DecidedAugust 31, 2011
Docket11-09-00265-CR
StatusPublished
Cited by37 cases

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Chapman v. State, 349 S.W.3d 241, 2011 Tex. App. LEXIS 7220, 2011 WL 3855889 (Tex. Ct. App. 2011).

Opinion

OPINION

TERRY McCALL, Justice.

The jury convicted William Kevin Chapman of two counts of sexual assault of a child (Counts One and Two) and five counts of indecency with a child (Counts Three through Seven). The jury assessed punishment at confinement for a term of six years for each sexual assault offense and confinement for a term of two years for each indecency with a child offense. The trial court sentenced appellant accordingly and ordered that the sentences run concurrently. The trial court entered separate judgments on each of the counts. Because we conclude that the evidence was legally insufficient to support appellant’s conviction on Count Four, we reverse the trial court’s judgment and render an acquittal on Count Four. We affirm the trial court’s judgments on Counts One, Two, Three, Five, Six, and Seven.

The Charged Offenses

The indictment referred to the child as “A.L.B.” At the time of the alleged offenses, A.L.B. was fourteen years old. The indictment alleged that the offenses in Counts One through Five occurred on or about September 22, 2007. Counts One and Two alleged that appellant sexually assaulted A.L.B. by penetrating her mouth with his sexual organ and by penetrating her sexual organ with his finger. Counts Three through Five alleged that appellant engaged in sexual contact with A.L.B. by touching her sexual organ with his finger, by touching her breast with his hand, and by making her touch his sexual organ. The indictment alleged that the offenses in Counts Six and Seven occurred on or about September 15, 2007. Counts Six and Seven alleged that appellant engaged in sexual contact with A.L.B. by making her touch his sexual organ and by touching her breast with his hand.

Issues on Appeal

Appellant presents seven points of error for review. Appellant’s first three points relate to the guilt/innocence phase of the trial. In his first point, appellant contends that the trial court erred by denying his motion for mistrial that was based on allegedly improper jury argument. In his second and third points, appellant challenges the legal and factual sufficiency of the evidence to support his convictions. Appellant’s last four points relate to the punishment phase of the trial. In his fourth and fifth points, appellant challenges the legal and factual sufficiency of the evidence to support what he contends was a jury finding at the punishment phase that the alleged offenses occurred on or after September 1, 2007. Based on this allegedly unsupported finding, appellant asserts that the jury could not consider him for community supervision. In his sixth point, appellant contends that the evidence at the punishment phase was legally insufficient to prove that he committed an extraneous offense. In his seventh point, appellant contends that the trial court erred by admitting evidence of the extraneous offense.

Sufficiency of the Evidence Standard of Review

We will first address appellant’s challenges to the sufficiency of the evidence to *244 support his convictions. We note at the outset of our analysis that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has now held in Brooks v. State, 323 S.W.3d 893 (Tex.Crim.App.2010), that there is “no meaningful distinction between the Jackson v. Virgin ia 1 legal-sufficiency standard and the Clewis 2 factual-sufficiency standard”; that the Jackson v. Virginia standard is the “only standard that a reviewing court should apply in determining whether the evidence is sufficient to support each element of a criminal offense that the State is required to prove beyond a reasonable doubt”; and that “[a]ll other cases to the contrary, including Clems, are overruled.” Brooks, 323 S.W.3d at 895, 902, 912 (footnotes added). Accordingly, a challenge to the factual sufficiency of the evidence is no longer viable. We also note that appellant did not have the benefit of the opinion in Brooks when this case was briefed. We will review appellant’s sufficiency challenges under the legal sufficiency standard set forth in Jackson v. Virginia. Under this standard, we must review all of the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict and determine whether any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d 560; Brooks, 323 S.W.3d at 899.

The Evidence at Trial

Shortly after her fourteenth birthday, A.L.B. started taking guitar lessons from appellant at T.J. Rabbit’s music store in Odessa. Appellant was thirty years old at that time. A.L.B.’s mother usually paid for the lessons by check. The earliest check for a lesson was dated June 21, 2007, and the last check for a lesson was dated September 28, 2007. A.L.B. believed that she had between ten and twelve lessons. The evidence showed that her mother wrote eleven checks for lessons.

A.L.B. testified that the lessons took place in the guitar room at the store. She said that appellant kissed her at some of the lessons. She said that, by late August or early September, “[tjhere were more intimate actions going on, deeper than just kissing.” During her testimony, A.L.B. described in detail two incidents that she said happened in September. She said that, during the first incident, appellant told her that he had been unable to stop staring at her breasts at an earlier lesson. A.L.B. testified that she and appellant then played truth or dare and that appellant told her he “would do anything.” Appellant told A.L.B. that he was going to change clothes. He took some sweatpants out of a bag that was underneath the desk in the guitar room. A.L.B. said that she covered her face with her hands but that appellant spread her fingers apart so that she could see him change. Appellant was not wearing anything under the sweatpants. A.L.B. testified that there was an opening in the front of the sweatpants and that appellant took his penis out of the sweatpants with his hand. A.L.B. testified that appellant’s penis was “hard.” Appellant asked her whether she wanted to touch his penis, and she responded, “Sure.” Appellant stood up and lowered his pants. A.L.B. testified that appellant had a shaved pubic area. A.L.B. said that she touched appellant’s penis with her hand. She said that appellant took her hand and stroked his penis with it. Appellant asked A.L.B. whether she had ever seen a penis ejaculate. She responded that she had not. Appellant then asked her whether she would like to see a penis *245 ejaculate, and she said, “Sure.” A.L.B. said that appellant asked her to touch his “balls” and that she responded, “Okay.” She said that she massaged appellant’s “balls” while he stroked his penis. A.L.B. said that appellant ejaculated on the floor near the desk that was in the guitar room. A.L.B. also testified that appellant touched her breasts with his hand and kissed her breasts during this first incident.

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