Barreda v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

Appeal is taken from a conviction for the offense of sexual assault. A jury found appellant guilty and assessed punishment at confinement for 9 years. Appellant s conviction was reversed by the Court of Appeals. Barreda v. State, 760 S.W.2d 1, (Tex.App.—Corpus Christi 1987).

Just as in cases where we refuse to grant a petition for discretionary review, this Court’s decision that such a petition was improvidently granted should not be construed as approval by this Court of the language or reasoning used by the Court of Appeals in reaching its…