Townsend v. State

OPINION

Townsend was charged and convicted of two counts of lewdness with a minor under the age of fourteen years and two counts of sexual assault. He was sentenced to serve two concurrent ten-year terms for the lewdness counts and two concurrent life terms for the counts of sexual assault. The sentences imposed for sexual assault were to run consecutively to the sentences imposed for lewdness.

The victim was nine years old at the time the oifenses occurred. She lived in a trailer house occupied by her family, including her father, appellant John Michael Townsend. The first act occurred in the…