Watts v. State

DUGGAN, Justice.

Appellant was found guilty by a jury of aggravated sexual abuse. Upon the punishment hearing before the court without a jury, he was found to be a second offender, and his punishment was assessed at twenty years’ confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections.

Appellant asserts in two grounds of error that the trial court wrongly denied his motions for mistrial made during the prosecution’s opening statement to the jury, and later, during the prosecution’s closing jury argument.

In his first ground of error, appellant complains that the trial court erred in failing to grant…