Goodin v. State

In Goodin v. State, 750 S.W.2d 857, 859 (Tex.Cr.App.1988), the court recognized the fundamental principal that "in arriving at their verdict the [jurors] are not confined to a consideration of the palpable facts in evidence, but they may draw reasonable inferences and make reasonable deductions therefrom." It is a reasonable inference that jurors of common intelligence could determine that the victim's scratches caused her physical pain. The fact of a physical intrusion on the body in the form of a cut or scrape can itself be sufficient evidence of the associated physical pain necessary to show "bodily injury." Goodin v. State, supra.