A Texas appellate court issued an opinion Friday upholding a Bowie County jury's decision to find a man who beat a former girlfriend's 2-year-old son to death and injured her daughter guilty of capital murder and injury to a child. Clifford James Gayton Jr., 20, was found guilty in December at the end of a trial before 102nd District Judge Bobby Lockhart.
A New Boston, Texas, man sentenced to two life sentences plus 20 years for child sex abuse at the end of a Bowie County jury trial last summer is getting a second shot at justice. The 6th District Court of Appeals headquartered in Texarkana tossed out the convictions and sentences assessed 61-year-old Donald Harrell Jr. last August in an opinion issued Thursday.
A man who received a 60-year prison sentence last year from a Bowie County judge after falling on the floor during his plea hearing wants a second shot at justice. Gary Lamont Carson, 36, is serving time in a Texas prison for three counts of assault on a public servant and two counts of bail jumping and failure to appear.