Mendoza v. State

OPINION

ROGELIO VALDEZ, Chief Justice.

A jury convicted appellant, Ricardo Flores Mendoza, of aggravated sexual assault and set his punishment at sixty years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice-Institutional Division. Appellant’s first three issues focus on the admission of State’s Exhibit No. 4, the hammer used in the assault. Appellant argues that the hammer was inadmissible because the State failed to establish the proper chain of custody. He argues in his remaining issue that the trial court erred by admitting hearsay testimony from State’s witnesses. We affirm.

Statement of Facts

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