Laird v. State

OPINION

SPURLOCK, Justice.

Don Melton Laird, Jr., appellant, was charged with aggravated rape. V.T.C.A. Penal Code, sec. 21.03. Laird pled not guilty. The jury found Laird guilty and assessed his punishment at 20 years in prison. He raises four grounds of error. They are:

1. The trial court committed error in permitting the State to improperly bolster a witness whose testimony was unimpeached;

2. The court erred in not sustaining Laird’s objection to an improper jury argument;

3. That a pre-trial identification process (photo spread) was so suggestive and conducive to mistaken identification as to…