Carlock v. State

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice ROSS.

Roger Lee Carlock was charged with indecency with a child. He pled not guilty and not true to two paragraphs alleged for enhancement of punishment. A jury found him guilty of the offense charged and also found the two enhancement paragraphs true. He was sentenced, in accordance with the jury’s verdict, to ninety-nine years’ imprisonment and a $10,000.00 fine.

Carlock alleges the trial court erred: 1) by denying his request to make an opening statement after the State read the indictment in front of the jury, thereby presenting the equivalent of an opening…