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Anderson man convicted for assaulting niece
TYLER (AP) —An Anderson County con
stable has been convicted in the 1987 sexual
assault of his niece.
A jury deliberated just over an hour Mon
day evening before returning its verdict
against Andre Ingram.
The victim, now 25, wept and clung to
lead prosecutor Alicia Cashell in the hall
way afterward.
State District Judge Cynthia Kent tripled
Ingram's bond to $150,000. The jury was
told to return at 10 a.m. yesterday for the tri
al's sentencing phase.
This was Ingram's second trial in Smith
County on charges of sexual assault of a child.
In February, a mistrial was declared when a
jury could not reach a verdict after deliberat
ing more than nine hours.
Ingram's half-sister, Charlotte Garrison,
tearfully told jurors that Ingram made graph
ic comments about a sexual relationship with
his niece, who was 14 years old at the time of
the alleged assault.
Ingram has been the Precinct 2 constable for
Anderson County since 1988. Ingram told jurors
he never had any sexual contact with his niece.
He testified he never saw her, except at
family reunions where they might have
played dominoes. He accused the prosecu
tion's witnesses, including his sister, of lying.
The niece testified Saturday the abuse be
gan when she was nine.
She said she was spending the week of
Christmas 1987 at her father's house in Tyler
when Ingram came over. She told jurors that
on Dec. 28, 1987, her parents went to work in
the morning, leaving her and a younger sib
ling home alone with the defendant.
She said while the younger child played with
her Christmas toys in another room, the defen
dant had sex with her on a couch in the den.
A Smith County grand jury handed up an
indictment last December accusing him of a
Dec. 28, 1987, sexual assault of a girl who was
14 at the time.
In March, an Anderson County jury ac
quitted Ingram on two counts of indecency
with a child; a mistrial was declared on three
remaining counts of the same charge.
The victim in the Anderson County case
also was Ingram's niece, officials said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas
will receive $140 million for military
base construction through legisla
tion the House passed.
Members of the 1 louse approved
a $8.2 billion military construction
appropriations bill Monday night
by a 396-10 vote.
Texas lawmakers welcomed inclu
sion of their projects in the legislation.
"The funding will help provide
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tral Texans," Rep. Chet Edwards, D-
Waco, said, who secured $53 million
for Fort Hood. But he bemoaned the
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lion smaller than last year's.
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millions of dollars in funding for
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armed forces."
The money would help pay for
the following Texas projects:
— $53.2 million for Fort Hood in
Central Texas. Of that total, $21.6
million would be for family housing
construction, $17.5 million for the
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