Opinion
PD-0258-21
06-30-2021
DANITA CAROL THETFORD, Appellant v. THE STATE OF TEXAS
DO NOT PUBLISH
ON APPELLANT'S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW FROM THE SECOND COURT OF APPEALS TARRANT COUNTY.
OPINION
PER CURIAM.
Appellant was convicted of attempted murder and injury to a child. She was sentenced to five years in prison for injury to a child and placed on community supervision for 10 years for attempted murder.
Appellant did not argue on appeal that the evidence was insufficient to convict her of attempted murder. The Court of Appeals noted that the State referred to this oversight as "interesting," given this Court's opinion in Rodriguez v. State, 454 S.W.3d 503 (Tex. Crim. App. 2014). Nevertheless, the appellate court declined to address the issue as unassigned error.
We grant ground one of Appellant's petition for discretionary review and remand this case to the Court of Appeals to address the sufficiency of the evidence to prove attempted murder under Rodriguez.
Appellant's second and third grounds are refused.