Shaw v. State

OPINION

LESLIE B. YATES, Justice.

A jury convicted appellant Eddie Shaw of one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child under the age of fourteen and assessed punishment at life imprisonment and a $10,000 fine. Appellant challenges his conviction in six issues. He argues that the trial court erred by admitting irrelevant testimony about the complainant’s conduct after the abuse, permitting the complainant’s school principal to testify as an outcry witness, admitting DNA evidence without the necessary proof of the chain of custody, and allowing an expert to testify about the DNA evidence in…