Hernandez v. State

In this appeal we are asked to review several of the trial court’s adverse rulings in appellant’s trial for sexual battery of a child under the age of twelve years (case number 85-14964). We are also asked to review the trial court’s denial of appellant’s motion for speedy trial discharge in case numbers 86-00289, 86-00291, and 86-00292, which involved four counts of handling and fondling a child under the age of sixteen years and one count of committing a lewd and lascivious act in the presence of a child under the age of sixteen years.

After a careful review of the record in case number…