Vasquez v. State

OPINION

DORSEY, Justice.

A jury found appellant guilty of aggravated sexual assault, and the trial court assessed punishment at fifty years in prison. Appellant raises points of error complaining about counsel’s performance, the admission of evidence, the prosecutor’s jury argument, and the failure of the trial court to appoint an interpreter. We sustain one of appellant’s jury-argument points, reverse the conviction, and remand the cause to the trial court.

The State alleged that in December 1985 appellant penetrated the sexual organ of a child with his finger. The child first cried out in May…