Watkins v. State

OPINION

DAY, Justice.

A jury found appellants Christopher J. Whiteside and Patrecia Eileen Watkins guilty of the aggravated sexual assault of Watkins’s eight-year-old son M.W. They were tried as co-defendants. The jury assessed both of their punishments at confinement for life in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and a $10,000 fine.

On appeal, Whiteside raises six points of error and Watkins raises three. Both argue that the trial court erred by denying their motions to sever. Watkins further argues that the trial court erred by admitting evidence of prior acts of sexual misconduct not…