Tompkins v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

A jury found Appellant guilty of aggravated sexual assault and the trial court assessed punishment at confinement for forty years. The Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction. Tompkins v. State, 869 S.W.2d 637 (Tex.App.—Eastland 1994). We granted Appellant’s petition for discretionary review in which he alleged the trial court erred in denying his motion for new trial.

After further review of the petition for discretionary review and the opinion of the Court of Appeals, we have determined that Appellant’s petition was improvidently…