Garza v. State

OPINION

REEVES, Justice.

Appellant was indicted for sexual assault. TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. § 22.011(a)(1)(A) and (B). He pled not guilty before a jury and was convicted and sentenced to twenty years in prison. On appeal he raises three points of error. We affirm.

In his first point of error appellant contends the trial court abused its discretion in continuing the final day of trial through the night, until the punishment verdict was reached at seven o’clock in the morning. Appellant argues that this extended session had an inherently coercive impact on the jury and thus denied him a fair trial.

The…