Ashton v. State

OPINION

Russell Lloyd, Justice

A jury found appellant, Trenton Avery Ashton, guilty of two charges of aggravated sexual assault of a child younger than fourteen years of age,1 and the jury assessed his punishment in both cases at thirty-eight years’ incarceration, with sentences to run consecutively. In three issues, appellant argues that: (1) the trial judge erred by denying his motion for mistrial after it was revealed during trial that two jurors knew the investigating detective; (2) the trial court erred by failing *493to instruct the jury in cause number 13CR3370 that it must unanimously find…