Rockwood v. State

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for the offense of sodomy under the former Code. The jury assessed the punishment at fifteen years.

The trial was in February, 1974.

Appellant contends that the conduct he was charged with is not a crime under the 1974 Penal Code and that he did not have adequate representation of counsel.

The record reflects that in July of 1973 appellant had his nine-year-old stepdaughter commit an act of oral sodomy upon him while her sister and mother were away from the house.

When the mother returned the nine-year-old daughter told her what had…