Israel Brice Deere v. State

Opinion

In The

Court of Appeals

Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana

No. 06-19-00098-CR

ISRAEL BRICE DEERE, Appellant V.

THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

On Appeal from the 6th District Court Lamar County, Texas

Trial Court No. 28092

Before Morriss, C.J., Burgess and Stevens, JJ.

Memorandum Opinion by Justice Stevens

MEMORANDUM OPINION

A Lamar County jury convicted Israel Brice Deere of aggravated sexual assault of a child

and indecency with a child by sexual contact. 1 See TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. §§ 21.11, 22.021. On appeal, Deere argues that the trial court erred by reading the transcript of witness testimony in response to a jury note that did not adequately specify the disagreement about the testimony. He also argues that the trial court erred by admitting hearsay and by creating a false impression that Deere was charged with an additional offense.

In companion cause number 06-19-00097-CR, Deere raised these same issues in his appeal from a conviction for indecency with a child by sexual contact. We addressed these issues in detail in our opinion of this date on Deere’s appeal in cause number 06-19-00097-CR. For the reasons stated therein, we likewise overrule Deere’s points of error here.

We affirm the trial court’s judgment.

Scott E. Stevens

Justice

Date Submitted: November 18, 2019 Date Decided: November 27, 2019

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1 Deere was sentenced to ninety-nine years’ imprisonment for aggravated sexual assault of a child and twenty years’ imprisonment for indecency with a child by sexual contact.