Yaw v. State

OPINION

JORDAN, Justice.

Appellant was found guilty by a jury of Indecency With a Child in violation of V.T.C.A.Penal Code sec. 21.11, and at the punishment phase of his trial the jury found that paragraph two of the indictment charging appellant with a prior offense of Indecency With a Child was true. The jury assessed punishment at twenty years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections and a $10,000.00 fine.

Appellant was charged with touching the genitals of a female child, Kristi Lynn Maples, nine years old at the time in question, on July 11, 1978, in Denton County, Texas. The…