Jolly v. State

OPINION

JUNELL, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction for the offense of aggravated sexual abuse of a child pursuant to TEX.PENAL CODE ANN. § 21.05 (Vernon 1974). A jury found appellant guilty as charged and assessed punishment at seventy-six (76) years in the Texas Department of Corrections and a $10,000 fine. We affirm.

Appellant was convicted of having engaged in deviate sexual intercourse with his seven-year-old stepdaughter, R_ W_On November 2, 1982, James Easley, brother of the child’s mother, received a phone call from his sister, Anita Webb Jolly. Easley described his sister as…