Hawkins v. State

OPINION

O’CONNOR, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction for sexual assault. After a jury convicted Charles Lee Hawkins, appellant, the trial court sentenced him to life imprisonment. We affirm.

Complainant, a deaf woman, was sexually assaulted by Hawkins and John Clarence Soloman. She reported the assault to the motel manager, who called the police and the complainant’s husband. The husband, at his sister’s house at the time of the assault, went to the motel. The husband interpreted his wife’s sign language to the investigating officers. Interpreting for her, the husband said the…