Jefferson Jackson Jarvis, III v. State

OPINION

LEE GABRIEL, Justice.

Appellant Jefferson Jackson Jarvis, III appeals his sixty-year sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assault of a child, enhanced by a prior felony. In two issues, he contends that he is entitled to a new punishment hearing because the trial court sentenced him without specifically asking if he had any legal reason why sentence should not be pronounced. We affirm.

Appellant waived a jury and entered an open plea of guilty to sexually assaulting C.C., his brother’s twelve-year-old stepdaughter. At the punishment hearing, the State called C.C.,…