Jackson v. State

A jury convicted Timmy Jackson of injury to a child. The jury assessed his punishment at five years’ confinement. Jackson challenges only the legal sufficiency of the evidence.

Barbara Gladden, an investigator for the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services, testified that her department received an anonymous telephone call informing them that a child had been severely burned. The call was received on July 15, 1998, and the caller stated that the child was burned on July 12, 1998. The caller only identified the child and his mother by their first names. Gladden testified that she immediately began to search for the child by visiting various housing projects and bingo halls and leaving messages at those places. Gladden testified that on July 16, 1998, the child’s grandmother brought the child, two-year-old J.A., to her office. She testified J.A. had burns on his buttocks; his scrotum; the back of his left leg, up to mid calf; and the top of his left foot. Gladden immediately removed J.A. from his mother’s home and took him to the hospital emergency room. Later, J.A. was taken to the burn center at a children’s hospital in another city.