Johnson v. State

Benham, Justice.

At age 14, appellant Brandon Johnson was charged as an adult with aggravated sodomy, aggravated child molestation, and aggravated sexual battery in conjunction with his alleged acts involving a six-year-old girl who pretended to be asleep while appellant purportedly inserted his finger into her sex organ and put his tongue on her sex organ.1 The jury convicted appellant of the three charges and the trial court imposed upon him the mandatory minimum sentences for each of the three crimes, ten years’ imprisonment, with the three sentences to run concurrently.2 On appeal,…