Scott v. State

OPINION

CHARLES KREGER, Justice.

Christopher Scott was convicted by a jury of aggravated sexual assault of a child younger than fourteen years of age. See Tex. Pen.Code Ann. § 22.021(a)(l)(A)(i), (2)(B) (Vernon Supp.2005). Scott was sentenced by the jury to fifty years’ confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division. Scott appeals raising three points of error.

In his first point, Scott argues the trial court committed reversible error by not allowing him to cross-examine the State’s witness, Steve Burney, as to his mental state. Burney is the father of J.P., the…