Puderbaugh v. State

OPINION

WALKER, Chief Justice.

James Delevan Puderbaugh was indicted for having committed the first degree felony offense of aggravated sexual assault of a child younger than fourteen years of age. After the jury found Puderbaugh to be guilty, the court assessed punishment at seventy-five years of confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division. Puderbaugh raises five points of error in his appeal.

Point of error one urges, “The trial court erred by allowing a social worker to testify to statements made to him which incriminated appellant because the State did not…