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NO. 07-02-0423-CR

                             IN THE COURT OF APPEALS

                      FOR THE SEVENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                                     AT AMARILLO

                                        PANEL E

                                     JUNE 17, 2004

                         ______________________________

                        ERIC DEWAYNE WHITE, APPELLANT

                                            v.

                          THE STATE OF TEXAS, APPELLEE

                        _________________________________

           FROM THE 9TH DISTRICT COURT OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY;

              NO. 02-08-05354-CR; HON. FRED EDWARDS, PRESIDING

                         _______________________________

Before REAVIS and CAMPBELL, JJ., and BOYD, S.J.1

      Appellant Eric Dewayne White brings this appeal from his convictions for the felony

grade offenses of two counts of aggravated assault, attempted aggravated sexual assault,

and aggravated kidnapping. His punishment was assessed by the jury at 20 years, 7 years,

20 years, and 60 years, respectively. With the assessment of punishment for the attempted

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      John T. Boyd, Chief Justice (Ret.), Seventh Court of Appeals, sitting by assignment.
Tex. Gov’t Code Ann. §75.002(a)(1) (Vernon Supp. 2004).
aggravated sexual assault conviction, the jury made an affirmative use of a deadly weapon

finding.

       Appellant’s appellate counsel has now filed an Anders brief in which he states he has

thoroughly examined the trial record and concluded that the appeal is without merit. See

Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 744-45, 87 S. Ct. 1396, 18 L. Ed. 2d 493 (1967); High v.

State, 573 S.W.2d 807, 809-11 (Tex. Crim. App. 1978). In the brief, counsel has certified

that he has mailed a copy to appellant and explained appellant’s right to file a pro se brief.

Counsel has also filed a motion seeking withdrawal from the case. Appellant has exercised

his right to file a pro se brief. Because the brief is a response to the Anders brief filed by

his counsel, it is not a brief within the contemplation of the Rules of Appellate Procedure,

and the requirements of those rules are not applicable. Thus, if we can discern any

arguable issues presented by appellant, it is our duty to examine the record and determine

if reversible error is presented. See Stelbacky v. State, 22 S.W.3d 583, 586-87 (Tex.

App.–Amarillo 2000, no pet.).

       In his brief, there are 11 discernible issues.       Those issues are: 1) there is

fundamental error in the indictment; 2) the evidence is legally and factually insufficient to

support a conviction for aggravated assault; 3) the evidence is legally and factually

insufficient to support a conviction for attempted aggravated sexual assault; 4) the evidence

is legally and factually insufficient to support a conviction for aggravated kidnapping; 5) the

trial court erred in denying appellant’s request for instructions on lesser-included offenses;

6) appellant’s Sixth Amendment right to a petit jury drawn from a representative cross-

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section of the community was denied and the trial court erred in failing to quash the jury

panel; 7) the “[f]ailor [sic] of lawyer to file a sworn writing to challenge the array of jury’s

[sic]” is ineffective assistance of counsel; 8) the trial court erred in admitting the eyewitness

identification from the photographic line-up because the photographs were not all black

males; 9) the trial court erred in denying appellant’s motion to suppress the in-court

identification of appellant and the “photographic identification” because of the suggestive

show-up identification by one of the victims; 10) the trial court erred in admitting appellant’s

juvenile adjudication during the punishment hearing; and 11) the officers illegally entered

appellant’s mother’s home and illegally arrested him without a warrant.

       Proper discussion requires us to review the pertinent facts in the record. The State’s

evidence showed that on June 6, 2001, Jacqueline Vasquez was in the kitchen of her

parent’s home making sandwiches for herself and her brother Abraham. It was night, the

lights were on inside the house, and the window blinds were open. Abraham was in the

living room watching television. Jacqueline noticed that the garbage needed to be taken

out, so she took the bag and went through the garage to a door that opened into the back

yard. As she arrived at the trash can and started to deposit the bag, “all of a sudden,” she

heard something behind her, felt something in the back of her head, turned around, and

“saw a guy and he had his gun pointed right at [her] face.”

       The “guy,” later identified as appellant, told her to go into the garage. Because, she

averred, she was frightened that the man would use the gun, she complied. She said that

he told her to sit down on a bed in the garage. She then told the man that she was not

alone and called Abraham, who heard her and went into the garage. The man had a grip

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on her with the gun pointed at her. The assailant made Abraham sit on the bed next to

Jacqueline and started looking for something. As he did so, Abraham, who spoke no

English, testified through an interpreter that appellant “would turn his back on us

momentarily, but when he would turn back around and face us, he would point the gun at

her and I.” The man then sought to tie Abraham’s hands behind his back as tightly as

possible but, because Abraham kept his hands apart, he was able to untie himself.

       Because he did not speak English, Abraham told his sister to ask the man what he

wanted. Jacqueline did so and, in addition told him he could go inside the house and take

whatever he wanted “but leave us alone.” The man replied that “he wanted it all,” grabbed

his testicles, and pointed at Jacqueline. He then told Jacqueline to “open” her legs. When

she refused to do so, Jacqueline said that the intruder “grabbed his gun and he kind of

pushed my knee to the side so I could open my legs.” He attempted to open her legs with

his gun hand and when she moved her legs back together, she said he hit her on the side

of her face with his gun, which resulted in a bleeding cut. Jacqueline also said she cried

and begged him to leave her alone.

       The intruder told Jacqueline to shut up and hit her again with his gun. At that point,

Abraham grabbed a metal folding chair and hit the man as hard as he could. Jacqueline

was able to run into the house and call 911. During the course of their struggle, the

assailant scratched Abraham, pointed the gun at him, and tried to fire it, but the gun did not

fire. Abraham fled into the kitchen, looked for something to defend himself with, and found

nothing but returned to the garage acting as if he had a weapon. The intruder initially tried

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to prevent Abraham from returning to the garage, but when he was unable to do so, he

turned and fled.

       When two police officers arrived at the scene, they were informed of the intruder’s

description and that “the brother was chasing the black male through the street from the

house.” The suspect was described as a tall “black male wearing a tee shirt and jogging

pants.” About two blocks from the house, the officers saw a suspect matching the

description given them. One of the officers (Officer Keleman) recognized appellant. The

officers pulled up in their marked patrol car, and, as they did so, “[a]s soon as [Officer

Harper] opened up the passenger’s side door, the individual took off running.” Although

other patrol officers joined in the chase, the suspect outran them.

       After the officers lost track of the suspect, they returned to the house, learned that

the suspect had possession of a gun, and notified “EMS,” which transported Jacqueline

and Abraham to the hospital. Officer Keleman and another officer then went to appellant’s

parent’s house where appellant lived and was located about two or three blocks away from

Jacqueline’s residence. The officer accompanying Officer Keleman went to the back of the

house and Officer Keleman went to the front door and knocked. Appellant’s mother

answered the door and told Officer Keleman that appellant had just come in and was getting

in the shower. Officer Keleman asked appellant’s mother for a description of the clothes

appellant was wearing when he returned to her house, to which she responded by bringing

him the clothes. After giving the officer the clothes, she then “walked to the bathroom and

told [Appellant] that he had company.” She also gave a written consent to search, which

the officers used to search for the gun, but they did not find it. Appellant was placed under

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arrest when he came out of the bathroom. Subsequently, both Jacqueline and Abraham

identified appellant as the intruder from photo lineups.

       With reference to the first discerned issue presented by his pro se brief, appellant

argues that although in the indictment he was charged with use of a deadly weapon, no

such weapon was produced at trial and no weapon was mentioned in the trial court’s

findings of fact and conclusions of law. In support of his proposition that reversal is

required, he relies upon American Plant Food Corp. v. State, 508 S.W.2d 598 (Tex. Crim.

App. 1974). However, the proposition espoused in cases such as American Plant Food was

superseded in the 1987 amendments to article V, section 12(b) of the Texas Constitution

and by the change in article 1.14 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure. See Fisher v.

State, 887 S.W.2d 49, 54-55 (Tex. Crim. App. 1994), overruled on other grounds by Malik

v. State, 953 S.W.2d 234, 239-40 (Tex. Crim. App. 1997) (an indictment is sufficient that

charges the commission of an offense in language sufficient to enable a person of common

understanding to understand the charge and the sufficiency of the evidence should be

determined by a hypothetically correct jury charge). Appellant’s first discerned issue is

overruled.

       In the next three discerned issues, appellant challenges the legal and factual

sufficiency of the evidence to sustain his conviction of aggravated assault, attempted

aggravated sexual assault and aggravated kidnapping. In appeals such as this in which

both the legal and factual sufficiency of the evidence is challenged, we must first determine

whether the evidence is legally sufficient to support the verdict. See Clewis v. State, 922

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S.W.2d 126, 133 (Tex. Crim. App. 1996). In making that determination, we decide if, after

reviewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict, a rational trier of fact could

have found the essential elements of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt. See Jackson

v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 319, 99 S. Ct. 2781, 61 L. Ed. 2d 560 (1979); King v. State, 895
S.W.2d 701, 703 (Tex. Crim. App. 1995). If the answer is yes, then the evidence underlying

the conviction is legally sufficient.

       If the evidence is legally sufficient, we then consider the factual sufficiency challenge.

See Clewis, 922 S.W.2d at 133. In determining the factual sufficiency of evidence upon

which the State has the burden of proof, we must view all the evidence in a neutral light, see

Johnson v. State, 23 S.W.3d 1, 6-7 (Tex. Crim. App. 2000), and only set aside the verdict

if it is so contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence as to be clearly wrong and

unjust. Id.

       In challenging his convictions for aggravated assault on Jacqueline (Count 1) and

Abraham (Count 2) respectively, the thrust of appellant’s challenge is that the evidence is

legally and factually insufficient because his victims did not suffer serious bodily injury and

the gun was never produced at trial.

       In Texas, a person commits the offense of aggravated assault if he “intentionally,

knowingly, or recklessly causes bodily injury to another” and uses or exhibits a deadly

weapon during the commission of the assault. Tex. Pen. Code. Ann. §§ 22.01(a) &

22.02(a) (Vernon Supp. 2004).

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       In the application paragraph for Count 1, the jury was instructed that if it found that

appellant “did then and there intentionally or knowingly or recklessly cause bodily injury to

Jacqueline Vasquez, by striking Jacqueline Vasquez on the head with a firearm, and the

defendant did then and there use or exhibit a deadly weapon, namely, a firearm, during the

commission of said assault,” it might convict. That charge tracks the statutory elements of

the offense.

       In the application paragraph concerning Count 2, the jury was instructed it could

convict if it found beyond a reasonable doubt that appellant “did then and there intentionally

or knowingly or recklessly cause bodily injury to Abraham Vasquez, by striking Abraham

Vasquez in the face with the defendant’s hand, and the defendant did then and there use

or exhibit a deadly weapon, namely, a firearm, during the commission of said assault.”

Likewise, this language tracks the language of the statute. With regard to appellant’s

contention that the evidence was insufficient to show serious bodily injury, because the

infliction of serious bodily injury was not an element of the offense charged, evidence of that

element was not required for conviction.

       As appellant admits, both Jacqueline and Abraham testified that appellant had a gun.

Indeed, there was evidence that appellant hit Jacqueline twice in the face with a gun and

that he exhibited a gun as he grabbed Abraham’s face and scratched it. Although the gun

was not recovered, in view of the evidence that appellant was first spotted by the officers

about two blocks from the scene of the occurrence and he did not return to his residence

until about an hour and a half after the occurrence, a jury could rationally conclude that he

had disposed of the gun subsequent to the incident.

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       In regard to the aggravated assault on Jacqueline, there was evidence from both

Jacqueline and Abraham that when Jacqueline refused to spread her legs, appellant hit her

with the gun, which opened a bleeding cut above her eye. There was also her testimony

that when she started crying and begging, he hit her again with his gun. The evidence is

both legally and factually sufficient to support the jury’s verdict in that regard.

       With regard to the conviction of aggravated assault on Abraham, he testified that he

grabbed appellant’s gun hand and lowered it, giving his sister a chance to escape. At that

time, he testified that appellant grabbed his face, scratched it, broke free, raised his gun and

tried to fire it. When he could not fire the gun, appellant pushed Abraham. State’s Exhibit

11, which was a picture of Abraham’s face, shows a reddened area and a small cut or

scratch. If accepted by the jury, as it obviously was, the evidence was sufficient to show the

use of a gun in the assault. Appellant’s second discerned issue is overruled.

       In his third perceived issue, appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to

support his conviction of attempted aggravated sexual assault. In particular, he asserts the

evidence is insufficient because Jacqueline never testified as to any sexual contact, i.e., no

clothes were torn, undone, or unzipped, nor was any genitalia exposed.

       An attempt to commit an offense occurs if, “with specific intent to commit an offense,

he [the accused] does an act amounting to more than mere preparation that tends but fails

to effect the commission of the offense intended.” Tex. Pen. Code Ann. §15.01(a) (Vernon

2003). A person’s conduct constitutes an attempt to commit the aggravated offense if an

element that aggravates the offense accompanies the attempt. Id. §15.01(b).

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       A person commits aggravated sexual assault if he “intentionally or knowingly causes

the penetration of the anus or female sexual organ of another person by any means, without

that person’s consent” and “uses or exhibits a deadly weapon in the course of the same

criminal episode.” Tex. Pen. Code Ann. §22.021(a)(1)(A) & (a)(2)(A)(iv) (Vernon Supp.

2004). In its relevant charge, the jury was instructed that it could convict if it found beyond

a reasonable doubt that appellant:

       with the specific intent to commit the offense of Aggravated Sexual Assault
       of Jacqueline Vasquez, [did] an act, namely, striking Jacqueline Vasquez in
       the head and instructing Jacqueline Vasquez to spread her legs, which
       amounted to more than mere preparation that tended but failed to effect the
       commission of the offense, and in the commission of the offense, the
       defendant used or exhibited a deadly weapon, namely a firearm . . . .

The jury was additionally instructed in pertinent part that “[o]ur law provides that a person

commits the offense of aggravated sexual assault if the person intentionally or knowingly

causes the penetration of the female sexual organ of another person by any means, without

that person’s consent.” It was further instructed that an attempt to commit an offense

occurs “if, with specific intent to commit an offense, a person does an act amounting to

more than mere preparation that tends, but fails, to effect the commission of the offense

intended.” The jury charge satisfactorily tracked the applicable statutes.

       At trial, Abraham averred that appellant made gestures at Jacqueline, including

“grabbing his testicles.” Appellant also hit Jacqueline in the face with the gun. Jacqueline

testified that after appellant grabbed his crotch, he tried to force her legs apart with his gun.

The evidence was amply sufficient to support a conclusion that appellant had the specific

intent to have intercourse with Jacqueline without her consent. In particular, his acts in

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trying to spread her legs apart after grabbing his crotch is sufficient to justify a conclusion

as to appellant’s specific intention without the necessity of having actual sexual contact with

her or appellant having actually exposed his genitals. Appellant’s third perceived issue is

overruled.

       In his fourth perceived issue, appellant argues the evidence is not sufficient to

support his kidnapping conviction. In particular, he argues it is insufficient because

Jacqueline was never abducted, she was in her home which was a safe place, and no

weapons were shown or produced at trial to show she was held against her will. The statute

provides that a person commits the offense of aggravated kidnapping if he “intentionally or

knowingly abducts another person with the intent to . . . inflict bodily injury on [her] or abuse

[her] sexually” or if he “intentionally or knowingly abducts another person and uses or

exhibits a deadly weapon during the commission of the offense.” Tex. Pen. Code Ann.

§20.04(a)(4) § (b) (Vernon 2003).

       With regard to the application paragraph, the jury was charged that it might convict

if it found beyond a reasonable doubt that appellant “intentionally or knowingly abducted

Jacqueline Vasquez, with the intent to prevent her liberation, by using or threatening to use

deadly force, namely threatening to shoot her with a firearm, and with the intent to inflict

bodily injury on Jacqueline Vasquez or violate or abuse her sexually.”             The charge

satisfactorily tracked the statute.

       The definition portion of the jury charge tracked the statutory definitions for “abduct”

and “restrain” as follows:

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       “ABDUCT” means to restrain a person with intent to prevent her liberation by
       using or threatening to use deadly force.

       “RESTRAIN” means to restrict a person’s movements without consent so as
       to interfere substantially with her liberty, by moving her from one place to
       another or by confining her. Restraint is “without consent” if it is
       accomplished by force, intimidation or deception.

See Tex. Pen. Code Ann. §20.01(1)(A) & (2)(B) (Vernon Supp. 2004).

       Jacqueline’s testimony, which we have recited in some detail, is amply sufficient to

show that appellant restrained her freedom to move with the use of force and with a gun.

Abraham’s testimony that he saw appellant holding Jacqueline with the use of a gun

sufficiently corroborates her testimony. Perceived issue four is overruled.

       In his fifth perceived issue, appellant posits that the trial court reversibly erred in

refusing an instruction on the lesser-included offenses of assault, attempted sexual assault,

kidnapping, unlawful restraint, and false imprisonment. Parenthetically, in 1997, the

legislature renamed the crime of “false imprisonment,” and it is now called “unlawful

restraint.”   However, substantively, the former ”false imprisonment” and the current

“unlawful restraint” statutes are identical. 2

       Before a jury charge on a lesser-included offense must be given, a two prong test

must be met, namely: 1) the lesser-included offense must be included within the proof

necessary to establish the offense charged; and 2) some evidence must exist within the

record that if the defendant is guilty, he is guilty only of the lesser offense. Both prongs of

       See and compare Act of May 29, 1993, 73rd Leg., R.S., ch. 900, §1.01, 1993 Tex.
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Gen. Laws 3586, 3615 with Tex. Pen. Code Ann. §20.02 (Vernon 2003).

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the test must be met, regardless of whether such an instruction is requested by the

defendant or the State. Hampton v. State, 109 S.W.3d 437, 440 (Tex. Crim. App. 2003).

       There is no evidence in the record that would justify the inclusion of the lesser-

included offenses. Each of the offenses committed became aggravated by the use of a

gun. As we have discussed, the actual production of the gun used was not necessary. The

evidence we have discussed above, if accepted by the jury, clearly shows the use of a gun.

There is no evidence that a gun was not used in the commission of any offense committed

by appellant. Perceived issue five is overruled.

       In his sixth perceived issue, appellant argues that he was deprived of his

constitutional right to a trial jury drawn from a representative cross-section of the community

and the trial court reversibly erred in failing to quash the jury panel. In his seventh

perceived issue, he argues that his lawyer’s failure to challenge the jury array in a sworn

pleading demonstrates ineffective assistance of trial counsel. The record reveals that one

venire person asserted there was only one black person on the jury list. In response to that

comment, the trial court noted that while it was true there were “very few” African-Americans

on the panel, the African-American population percentage of the county was “less than

three percent now.”

       To satisfy the federal Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial, that jury must be chosen

from a panel representing a fair cross-section of the community. Duren v. Missouri, 439
U.S. 357, 359, 99 S. Ct. 664, 58 L. Ed. 2d 579 (1979); Castaneda v. Partida, 430 U.S. 482,

494, 97 S. Ct. 1272, 51 L. Ed. 2d 498 (1977). In Pondexter v. State, 942 S.W.2d 577 (Tex.

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Crim. App. 1996), cert. denied, 522 U.S. 825, 118 S. Ct. 85, 139 L. Ed. 2d 42 (1997), the

Court instructed that to establish a prima facie violation of that requirement, an appellant

must show: 1) the group alleged to be excluded is a “distinctive” group in the community;

2) the representation of this group in venires from which juries are selected is not fair and

reasonable in relation to the number of such persons in the community; and 3) this under-

representation is due to the systematic exclusion of the group in the jury selection process.

Id. at 580.

       Appellant arguably has met the first prong of the test, i.e., the group alleged to be

excluded is a “distinctive” one within the community. However, appellant has failed to meet

the second and third prongs of the test. Nothing in the record is actually sufficient to show

the racial composition of the panel. Moreover, assuming that there was only one African-

American on the particular jury panel, there is nothing to show the requisite “systematic

exclusion” of that racial group in the county of trial. A disproportionate representation in a

single panel is not sufficient to demonstrate an unconstitutional systematic exclusion of

distinctive racial groups. Pondexter, 942 S.W.2d at 581. Indeed, in view of the judge’s

statement as to the racial mix extant in the county, the paucity of African-Americans on the

particular jury panel would seem to be more likely the result of the small percentage of that

racial group in the county than the result of a systematic exclusionary policy. Appellant’s

perceived issue six is overruled.

       In his seventh perceived issue, appellant argues he did not receive effective

assistance of counsel at trial. In the seminal case of Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S.
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668, 104 S. Ct. 2052, 80 L. Ed. 2d 674 (1984), the Court instructs that the benchmark for

judging any claim of counsel ineffectiveness must be whether his trial conduct so

undermined the proper functioning of the adversarial process as to demonstrate that the

trial cannot be relied upon as having produced a just result. Id. 466 U.S. at 696. That

standard was pronounced applicable to all such claims in Texas by the court in Hernandez

v. State, 988 S.W.2d 770, 772 (Tex. Crim. App. 1999).

       The standard for showing ineffective assistance of counsel is usually stated as

having two parts, i.e., attorney performance and resulting prejudice. It is usually stated as:

1) whether counsel’s performance was deficient; and 2) whether, but for counsel’s deficient

performance, the result of the proceeding would have been different. Hernandez, 988
S.W.2d at 770, n.3. Absent both showings, we cannot conclude that appellant’s conviction

resulted from a breakdown in the adversarial process that renders the result unreliable.

Boyd v. State, 811 S.W.2d 105, 109 (Tex. Crim. App.), cert. denied, 502 U.S. 971, 112
S. Ct. 448, 116 L. Ed. 2d 466 (1991). Additionally, by statute, Montgomery County was

required to select venires by computer from voter registration and driver’s license lists.

Suffice it to say, appellant has failed to meet the requisites of the Strickland test to show his

trial counsel adversely affected the outcome of his trial by failing to challenge the jury

venire. Appellant’s seventh perceived issue is overruled.

       In his eighth and ninth challenges, appellant contends the trial court reversibly erred

in denying his motion to suppress the in-court identification of him as the miscreant because

it was the result of an impermissibly suggestive photographic lineup not entirely composed

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of black males and because of suggestive actions by the police at the scene. The

photographic lineup received in evidence is shown as a part of the record. Although

Jacqueline testified that the lineup was not composed entirely of African-American males,

her identification of appellant as her assailant was firm and unweakened under cross-

examination. She testified that when she had just taken the trash to the trash can, appellant

put a gun to her head, and she saw “a guy and he had his gun pointed right at my face” a

few inches away. When appellant told her to go into the garage, she said she could see

appellant ”because the light in the kitchen was still on, and since on our door that’s between

the kitchen and the garage, there’s a window between the middle of the door, so the

reflection in light from the kitchen went through the window, and there was some light in the

garage.” The record shows that she spoke to him when he was right in front of her and

when she asked what he wanted, he was still in front of her when he grabbed his testicles.

He was close to her when he tried to push her legs apart with the gun and when he hit her

in the face with the gun. While the lineup may not have been composed exclusively of

black males, the color of appellant’s skin was not so significantly different from that of the

other participants as to make him stand out.

       To be entitled to reversal, an appellant must show by clear and convincing evidence

that the identification was irreparably tainted. See Barley v. State, 906 S.W.2d 27, 32-35

(Tex. Crim. App. 1995), cert. denied, 516 U.S. 1176, 116 S. Ct. 1271, 134 L. Ed. 2d 217

(1996). Appellant has failed to make this showing. Appellant’s eighth and ninth perceived

issues are overruled.

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       In his tenth perceived issue, appellant contends the trial court reversibly erred in

admitting his “juvenille [sic] court adjudication.” However, in pertinent part, article 37.07 of

the Code of Criminal Procedure provides that “evidence may be offered by the state and

the defendant of an adjudication of delinquency based on a violation by the defendant of

a penal law of the grade of: (A) a felony; or (B) a misdemeanor punishable by confinement

in jail.” Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Ann. art. 37.07§3(a)(1) (Vernon Supp. 2004). The State’s

exhibits in question reflect that appellant had been adjudicated of delinquent conduct for 1)

Assault-Class A misdemeanor; 2) Theft-State Jail Felony for theft of a firearm, and 3)

Criminal Mischief-Class B misdemeanor. These offenses are of a grade punishable by jail

confinement and, by statute, were admissible at trial. Appellant’s tenth perceived issue is

overruled.

       In his eleventh perceived issue, appellant contends he was illegally arrested without

a warrant. He bases this contention on an affidavit attached to his brief in which his mother

states she never gave the officers permission to enter her home. However, no such

affidavit appears in the appellate record. Thus, we cannot consider it. See Tex. R. App.

P. 34.1; see also James v. State, 997 S.W.2d 898, 901 n.5 (Tex. App.–Beaumont 1999, no

pet.); Brown v. State, 866 S.W.2d 675, 678 (Tex. App.–Houston [1st Dist.] 1993, pet. ref’d).

       Moreover, appellant testified at the hearing on the motion to suppress evidence. He

admitted that he did not hear what his mother said to the officers. Additionally, Officer

Keleman’s testimony that appellant’s mother gave him permission to enter her home was

uncontradicted at trial. Appellant’s eleventh perceived issue is overruled.

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       In summary, all of appellant’s perceived issues are overruled, counsel’s motion to

withdraw is granted, and the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.

                                                  John T. Boyd
                                                  Senior Justice

Do not publish.

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