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- Title: Blane Adair Bottom v. State Texas
- Author : Second District, Fort Worth No. 2-92-239-CR Court of Appeals of Texas
- Release Date : January 25, 1993
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 63 KB
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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 the courtroom was voluntary, we overrule his point of error and affirm the jury's verdict. At this trial, Bottom was present during voir dire, seating and swearing of the jury, presentation of the State's case in
chief, and sentencing. After the State rested, defense counsel informed the court Bottom was not in the courtroom, but in
the hospital, because he had attempted suicide, or some harm to himself. Defense counsel requested, and the court denied,
a continuance. The court did, however, order a competency hearing from which Bottom was found competent to stand trial.
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