In re M.P.

OPINION

Opinion by

CATHERINE STONE, Justice.

A jury found appellant, M.P., guilty of engaging in delinquent conduct by committing aggravated sexual assault. The trial judge sentenced M.P. to the Texas Youth Commission until he is twenty-one years old and required that M.P. register as a sex offender and give a blood sample for the DNA data bank. M.P. argues on appeal that the trial court erred in submitting a jury charge that allowed a conviction on less than a unanimous verdict.

Factual and PROCEDURAL Background

In August 2001, M.R.1 told her mother, Evelyn, about incidents of sexual abuse that…