Opinion issued November 20, 2014

In The

Court of Appeals 

For The 

First District of Texas 

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NO. 01-13-00590-CR

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WILLIAM WALTON HARVEY, JR., Appellant

V.

THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

On Appeal from the 221st District Court

Montgomery County, Texas

Trial Court Case No. 05-02-01022-CR

MEMORANDUM OPINION

In 2005, appellant, William Walton Harvey, Jr., pleaded guilty to the 

second-degree felony offense of sexual assault of a child.1

 The trial court deferred 

 1 See TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. § 22.011(a)(2)(A) (Vernon 2011).
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adjudication of guilt and placed appellant on community supervision for seven 

years. In 2013, the State moved to adjudicate guilt, alleging seven distinct 

violations of the terms of appellant’s community supervision. The trial court found 

that appellant violated six conditions of his community supervision and assessed 

punishment at ten years’ confinement. In two issues, appellant contends that 

(1) the State failed to present sufficient evidence to support the adjudication of his 

guilt; and (2) the trial court erroneously failed to hold a separate punishment 

hearing after adjudicating his guilt.

We affirm.

Background

In 2005, pursuant to an agreed recommendation on punishment, appellant 

pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting N.B.E., his fourteen-year-old daughter. The 

trial court deferred adjudication of guilt and placed appellant on community 

supervision for seven years. One of the conditions of appellant’s community 

supervision required him to “participate in and successfully complete the 

Montgomery County Department of Community Supervision and Corrections’ 

program designed specifically for sex offenders, or other sex offender program 

designated by the Department’s supervising officer.” Originally, the trial court set 

appellant’s period of community supervision to expire in October 2012.
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In April 2012, the trial court extended appellant’s community supervision 

for an additional three months until January 12, 2013. At this time, the trial court 

also imposed the following additional condition:

Community Supervision is hereby extended for three months until 

January 12, 2013. Supervision Fees for the period of extension are 

added at a rate of $60.00 per month beginning November 2012, to be 

paid to the Montgomery County Department of Community 

Supervision and Corrections.

The trial court handwrote the following on the order: “Defendant must complete 

[p]olygraph ASAP [and m]ake each counseling session for 6 weeks [without] fail.” 

This order did not include amendments to the language of any existing condition of 

community supervision.

On January 2, 2013, the State moved to adjudicate guilt, alleging that 

appellant had violated seven distinct conditions of his community supervision. 

The State alleged,

Defendant failed to participate in and successfully complete a 

counseling program specifically designed for sex offenders, to-wit: 

the defendant began treatment in October 2005. He will not complete 

the program before [the] expiration date [of community supervision] 

due to excessive unexcused absences and being unprepared when he 

does attend. His therapist recommends at least a six month extension. 

The defendant has had approximately 60 unexcused absences.

The State also alleged that (1) during a post-polygraph interview, appellant 

admitted to watching movies depicting nudity and sexually explicit scenes; 

(2) appellant was deceptive on polygraph questions concerning alcohol use and 
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intentionally being alone, unsupervised, with minors; (3) appellant “failed to work 

faithfully at suitable employment as far as possible”; (4) appellant failed to do his 

required sixteen hours of community service per month for numerous months;

(5) appellant failed to pay the Sexual Assault Program fee for numerous months; 

and (6) appellant failed to pay in a timely manner the supervisory fees to the 

Montgomery County Department of Community Supervision and Corrections for 

numerous months.

The trial court held a hearing on the State’s motion to adjudicate guilt. At 

the beginning of the hearing, the trial court took judicial notice of the court’s file 

from the previous plea proceedings and then had the following exchange with the 

State:

[State]: And, Judge, just for the record, this is a motion to 

adjudicate. And if he is adjudicated on this and there is a 

punishment phase, this kind of—some of the testimony 

kind of runs together. So if we could just kind of do it all 

at once with his probation officer?

The Court: I am not going to have a bifurcated hearing. So, I mean, 

since it is a motion to adjudicate, I am going to hear the 

violations. But I also, obviously, want additional 

information because it is a motion to adjudicate, as 

opposed to a motion to revoke.

Defense counsel did not object when the trial court announced its decision to hold 

only one hearing instead of a separate hearing on punishment should it find the 

allegations in the motion to adjudicate true.
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Lisa Foster, with the Montgomery County Community Supervision and 

Corrections Department, testified that she began supervising appellant in 2005. 

Foster testified that appellant did not comply with several of the conditions of his 

community supervision, including missing “numerous sex offender counseling 

groups.” Foster received approximately sixty “no-show” faxes from the 

counseling center regarding appellant’s absences from counseling sessions. Foster 

testified that the trial court amended the conditions of appellant’s community 

supervision in April 2012 and required appellant to attend “each counseling session 

for [six] weeks [without] fail.” Appellant complied with this additional condition 

and did not miss another counseling session until November 2012. Foster also

testified that, although appellant complied with the new condition, he did not 

successfully complete the required sex offender counseling program. At the time 

the State moved to adjudicate guilt, appellant had completed three of the four 

phases of the counseling program, but he never successfully completed Phase Four.

Foster also testified that appellant occasionally worked as a pipefitter, but 

when those jobs ended, he did not obtain further employment because, as he told 

her, “he could not go and just get any job because he had to get a union job.” 

Appellant spent approximately twenty-one months, out of the seven years of his 

community supervision, unemployed. Foster also testified that appellant did not 

complete sixteen hours of community service per month and that he often did not 
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timely pay his sexual assault program fees and his supervisory fees, although she 

agreed that he had ultimately completed those three requirements by the time of the 

hearing on the State’s motion to adjudicate. Foster additionally testified that 

appellant admitted, during a post-polygraph interview, that he had watched some 

movies from the Red Box rental service that depicted female nudity. She stated 

that this violated one of the rules of appellant’s counseling program.

Defense counsel conceded that appellant missed counseling sessions and did 

not complete the program. Angela Harvey, appellant’s wife, also admitted that 

appellant missed counseling sessions. Defense counsel called several witnesses, 

including Angela Harvey, N.B.E., the complainant, appellant’s sister, and 

appellant’s mother-in-law, all of whom testified that they believed appellant had 

made progress and should be released from community supervision. N.B.E. 

testified regarding the circumstances surrounding appellant’s conduct leading to 

his arrest, but she also testified that appellant had changed and that she had

forgiven him. Defense counsel also elicited testimony from appellant’s sister 

concerning their difficult upbringing and how appellant had changed in a positive 

manner since he had begun the court-mandated counseling.

The trial court found six of the seven allegations in the State’s motion to 

adjudicate guilt true, adjudicated appellant guilty of the charged offense of sexual 
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assault of a child, and assessed punishment at ten years’ confinement.2 Appellant 

did not file a motion for new trial.

Revocation of Community Supervision

In his first issue, appellant contends that the trial court abused its discretion

in revoking his community supervision because the State failed to present 

sufficient evidence to support the trial court’s findings that appellant violated six 

conditions of his community supervision.

A. Standard of Review

A trial court’s decision to proceed to an adjudication of guilt and revoke 

deferred-adjudication community supervision is reviewable in the same manner as 

a trial court’s revocation of ordinary community supervision. See TEX. CODE 

CRIM. PROC. ANN. art. 42.12 § 5(b) (Vernon Supp. 2014); Lawrence v. State, 420 

S.W.3d 329, 331 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth 2014, pet. ref’d). At a hearing to revoke 

a defendant’s community supervision, the State must prove by a preponderance of 

the evidence that the defendant has violated a condition of his community 

supervision. Rickels v. State, 202 S.W.3d 759, 763–64 (Tex. Crim. App. 2006) 

(quoting Scamardo v. State, 517 S.W.2d 293, 298 (Tex. Crim. App. 1974)); Silber 

 2 The trial court did not find the following allegation true: “On June 17, 2011, Mr. 

Harvey submitted to a clinical polygraph exam wherein deception was indicated 

on questions asking about alcohol use and intentionally being alone, unsupervised 

with any minors. The defendant did not make any admissions during the post-test 

interview.”
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v. State, 371 S.W.3d 605, 611 (Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 2012, no pet.). 

“[A]n order revoking probation must be supported by a preponderance of the 

evidence; in other words, that greater weight of the credible evidence which would 

create a reasonable belief that the defendant has violated a condition of his 

probation.” Rickels, 202 S.W.3d at 763–64 (quoting Scamardo, 517 S.W.2d at 

298); Silber, 371 S.W.3d at 611. Our appellate review of an order revoking a 

defendant’s community supervision is limited to determining whether the trial 

court abused its discretion in ruling that the defendant violated the terms of his 

community supervision. Rickels, 202 S.W.3d at 763 (quoting Cardona v. State, 

665 S.W.2d 492, 493 (Tex. Crim. App. 1984)); Duncan v. State, 321 S.W.3d 53, 

56–57 (Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 2010, pet. ref’d). We examine the 

evidence in the light most favorable to the trial court’s order. Duncan, 321 S.W.3d 

at 57; Canseco v. State, 199 S.W.3d 437, 439 (Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 

2006, pet. ref’d).

A finding of a single violation of the terms and conditions of community 

supervision is sufficient to support revocation. Silber, 371 S.W.3d at 611; Joseph 

v. State, 3 S.W.3d 627, 640 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 1999, no pet.); see 

also Moore v. State, 605 S.W.2d 924, 926 (Tex. Crim. App. 1980) (“We need not 

address appellant’s other contentions since one sufficient ground for revocation 

will support the court’s order to revoke probation.”). Thus, to prevail on appeal, 
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the defendant must successfully challenge all of the findings that support the 

revocation order. Silber, 371 S.W.3d at 611; Joseph, 3 S.W.3d at 640 (citing Jones 

v. State, 571 S.W.2d 191, 193–94 (Tex. Crim. App. 1978)); see also Baxter v. 

State, 936 S.W.2d 469, 472 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth 1996, pet. dism’d) (holding 

that because appellant did not challenge second ground for revocation, sufficient 

evidence supported revocation order).

B. Failure to Complete Sex Offender Counseling

In its motion to adjudicate guilt, the State alleged that appellant failed to 

complete the required sex-offender counseling program. Lisa Foster, appellant’s 

community supervision supervisor, testified that appellant missed approximately 

sixty counseling sessions, that he completed only three out of four phases of the 

counseling program, and that, therefore, he did not successfully complete the 

program. Defense counsel conceded at the hearing on the State’s motion to 

adjudicate guilt that appellant missed numerous counseling sessions and that he did 

not complete the program.

Appellant argues on appeal that the April 2012 order adding an additional 

community supervision condition changed the counseling requirement such that 

appellant only had to attend the next six consecutive counseling sessions—which it 

is undisputed that he did—and that, after he satisfied the amended condition, he no 
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longer had to complete the counseling program, which had been required by the 

original community supervision conditions. We disagree.

The April 2012 order included the following new condition:

Community Supervision is hereby extended for three months until 

January 12, 2013. Supervision Fees for the period of extension are 

added at the rate of $60.00 per month beginning November 2012, to 

be paid to the Montgomery County Department of Community 

Supervision and Corrections.

The trial court handwrote the following under this new condition: “Defendant must 

complete [p]olygraph ASAP [and m]ake each counseling session for 6 weeks 

[without] fail.” The language of the amendment does not indicate that the trial 

court altered or superseded any previously existing condition. The order does not 

provide that if appellant attended the next six consecutive counseling sessions his 

counseling obligation would be complete, even if he had not otherwise completed 

all four phases of the counseling program. Instead, the order merely states that he 

must “[m]ake each counseling session for [six] weeks [without] fail.”

We interpret this language as a further condition that appellant was required 

to meet in addition to his existing requirement of successfully completing the sex 

offender counseling program. The plain language of the April 2012 order does not 

provide that attending the next six counseling sessions would release appellant 
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from his responsibility to complete the counseling program.3 The record contains 

evidence that appellant complied with the amended condition by attending the next 

six counseling sessions; indeed, he attended the next six months’ worth of sessions 

before he next missed a meeting in November 2012. However, the record also 

includes testimony that appellant did not successfully complete all phases of the 

program.

When viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the trial court’s 

order, as we must when reviewing a trial court’s decision to revoke community 

supervision, we conclude that the State has proved by a preponderance of the 

evidence that appellant violated the condition of his community supervision that 

required him to successfully complete a sex-offender counseling program. See 

Rickels, 202 S.W.3d at 763–64 (holding that State must prove, by preponderance 

of evidence, that defendant violated condition of community supervision); Duncan, 

321 S.W.3d at 57 (holding that when reviewing trial court’s order revoking

community supervision we view evidence in light most favorable to order). 

Because a finding of a single violation is sufficient to support revocation of 

community supervision, we need not address whether the State proved by a 

preponderance of the evidence that appellant violated the other conditions of 

 3 We note that the April 2012 order required appellant to attend the next six 

consecutive counseling sessions and that appellant not only did so but also 

continued attending sessions into November 2012, indicating that appellant 

viewed his counseling obligation as ongoing until he completed the program.
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community supervision specifically enumerated in the State’s motion to adjudicate 

guilt. See Moore, 605 S.W.2d at 926; Silber, 371 S.W.3d at 611; Joseph, 3 S.W.3d 

at 640. We therefore hold that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in 

revoking appellant’s community supervision. See Rickels, 202 S.W.3d at 763; 

Duncan, 321 S.W.3d at 56–57.

We overrule appellant’s first issue.

Failure to Hold Separate Punishment Hearing

In his second issue, appellant contends that the trial court erroneously failed 

to hold a separate punishment hearing after adjudicating him guilty of the charged 

offense.

The Court of Criminal Appeals has held that a defendant “is entitled to a 

punishment hearing after the adjudication of guilt, and the trial judge must allow 

the accused the opportunity to present evidence.” Vidaurri v. State, 49 S.W.3d 

880, 885 (Tex. Crim. App. 2001) (quoting Issa v. State, 826 S.W.2d 159, 161 (Tex. 

Crim. App. 1992) (emphasis in original)); see also TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. ANN.

art. 42.12, § 5(b) (“After an adjudication of guilt, all proceedings, including 

assessment of punishment . . . continue as if the adjudication of guilt had not been 

deferred.”). Although a defendant is entitled to a separate punishment hearing 

after an adjudication of guilt, this is a statutory right that can be waived. See 

Vidaurri, 49 S.W.3d at 886 (citing Issa, 826 S.W.2d at 161). The trial court should 
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be given the chance to allow the defendant to present punishment evidence or to 

make a ruling denying the defendant such an opportunity. See id.; Pearson v. 

State, 994 S.W.2d 176, 179 (Tex. Crim. App. 1999) (“Appellant had the 

opportunity to present evidence during the proceedings. That is all that is 

required.”) (emphasis in original). If the trial court denies the defendant an 

opportunity to present punishment evidence, the defendant should bring the issue 

to the attention of the trial court via a motion for new trial to preserve error. 

Vidaurri, 49 S.W.3d at 886; Lopez v. State, 96 S.W.3d 406, 414 (Tex. App.—

Austin 2002, pet. ref’d) (“In order to preserve error for review as to the lack of a 

punishment hearing, a defendant must timely request such a hearing, object to the 

lack of such a hearing, or file a timely motion for new trial based on the 

omission.”).

Here, before the trial court began hearing testimony on the State’s motion to 

adjudicate guilt, the State and the trial court had the following exchange:

[State]: And, Judge, just for the record, this is a motion to 

adjudicate. And if he is adjudicated on this and there is a 

punishment phase, this kind of—some of the testimony 

kind of runs together. So if we could just kind of do it all 

at once with his probation officer?

The Court: I am not going to have a bifurcated hearing. So, I mean, 

since it is a motion to adjudicate, I am going to hear the 

violations. But I also, obviously, want additional 

information because it is a motion to adjudicate, as 

opposed to a motion to revoke.
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Defense counsel did not object at this point, or at any other point during the 

hearing, to the trial court’s decision not to hold a separate punishment hearing. 

Defense counsel did not move for a new trial. Furthermore, during the hearing, 

defense counsel called several witnesses, including appellant’s wife, his daughter, 

the complainant, his sister, and his mother-in-law, all of whom provided mitigating 

evidence and expressed their desire that the trial court release appellant from 

community supervision.

Appellant argues on appeal that his trial counsel did not have an opportunity 

to object during the hearing to the trial court’s decision not to hold a separate 

punishment hearing, and, thus, he did not fail to preserve error. The Court of 

Criminal Appeals has held, however, that if the defendant does not have an 

opportunity to object to the failure to hold a separate punishment hearing until after 

the trial court takes action, the defendant must raise his complaint in a motion for 

new trial to preserve error. See Pearson, 994 S.W.2d at 179; see also Vidaurri, 49 

S.W.3d at 886 (“Assuming appellant was, as he alleges, prevented from [raising 

the lack of a separate punishment hearing issue] by request or objection, he should 

have brought the issue to the attention of the trial court with a motion for new 

trial.”); Lopez, 96 S.W.3d at 414 (“The use of a motion for new trial to preserve 

error is apparently limited to the rare circumstances of Issa—when there is no 

opportunity to object to the lack of a hearing.”).
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Here, even if appellant did not have an opportunity to object during the 

hearing to the trial court’s decision not to hold a separate punishment hearing, a 

matter we need not decide, appellant was still required to raise the complaint in a 

motion for new trial to preserve error. See Lopez, 96 S.W.3d at 414 (“The issue 

cannot be raised for the first time on appeal.”). Because appellant failed to request 

a separate punishment hearing, object to the trial court’s decision not to hold a 

separate punishment hearing, or raise the issue in a motion for new trial, we hold 

that appellant failed to preserve this complaint for appellate review. See Vidaurri, 

49 S.W.3d at 886; Pearson, 994 S.W.2d at 179; Lopez, 96 S.W.3d at 414; Baxter, 

936 S.W.2d at 472.

We overrule appellant’s second issue.

Conclusion

We affirm the judgment of the trial court.

Evelyn V. Keyes

Justice 

Panel consists of Chief Justice Radack and Justices Jennings and Keyes.

Do not publish. TEX. R. APP. P. 47.2(b).