Rhea v. State

705 S.W.2d 165 (1985)

Howard Edwin RHEA, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 6-84-112-CR.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Texarkana.

November 19, 1985.

Damon Young, Young, Patton & Folsom, Texarkana, Ark., Jack Herrington, Clarksville, for appellant.

Thomas H. Fowler, Co. Atty. of Red River County, Clarksville, for appellee.

BLEIL, Justice.

Howard Rhea appeals his conviction of the aggravated sexual assault of his two-year-old daughter. He complains that the child's videotaped statement should not have been admitted in evidence, raising the pivotal issue of whether the child was a competent…