Phillip Randolph Phillips, Appellant v. the State of Texas, Appellee

Summary

The Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas affirmed the appellant's aggravated kidnapping convictions and reversed the aggravated sexual abuse convictions, holding that the indictments sufficiently alleged the required mental state and were not unconstitutionally vague. It further held that the carving doctrine precludes multiple convictions arising from the same continuous assaultive transaction. The reversal bars any further prosecution for the aggravated sexual abuse offenses.