Rodriguez v. State

QUINN, Justice.

Ruben T. Rodriguez, Jr. (appellant) appeals his conviction for sexual assault. Through three points of error, he questions 1) the trial court’s decision to admit evidence of extraneous offenses, 2) the trial court’s failure to provide an instruction limiting the purposes for which the jury could consider the extraneous offenses, and 3) the effectiveness of his counsel. We affirm.

Background

C. O., a fourteen year old female, was spending the night with a cousin at appellant’s house. As she slept on the floor of the living room near her cousin, appellant laid down beside her,…