Rodgers v. State

OPINION

FELIPE REYNA, Justice.

A jury convicted John Rodgers of the aggravated sexual assaults of two girls less than fourteen years’ old and assessed his punishment at forty years’ imprisonment for each conviction. Rodgers presents the same two issues in each case, contending that the court committed egregious error by failing to sua sponte instruct the jury on the State’s burden of proof for extraneous offenses in the guilt-innocence charge and in the punishment charge. We will affirm.

The indictments allege that Rodgers committed each offense by causing the mouths of the complainants to…