Yount v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S MOTION FOR REHEARING ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

MALONEY, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in a trial by jury of the offense of aggravated sexual assault on a child. The jury assessed punishment, enhanced by two prior felony convictions, at ninety-nine years confinement.

On direct appeal appellant complained of the admission of certain expert testimony as improper bolstering.1 The Court of Appeals *707set forth the relevant facts which we adopt verbatim as follows:

The eight-year-old complainant (seven years of age at the time of the offense) testified that…