Pegoda v. State

OPINION

ODOM, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for the offense of fondling. Punishment was assessed by a jury at 10 years.

Prosecutrix, a female child 12 years of age, testified that her grandfather, the appellant, with whom she was staying while her mother was in the hospital, took her clothing off the evening in question, and “opened my private parts.” She further testified that appellant placed his hands on her private parts and that she told him she “didn’t want him to do it any more.” 1 She also related other previous instances, beginning when she was six years old, of the…