Salazar v. State

OPINION

joined by KELLER, P.J., MEYERS, PRICE, JOHNSON, KEASLER, HERVEY, and HOLCOMB, JJ.

Appellant Albert Salazar was found guilty of five counts of molesting the younger brother and sister of a teenager to whom he gave music lessons. The court of appeals reversed one of the counts — that of aggravated sexual assault of the little boy — because it found that the only evidence of the assault was Mr. Salazar’s extrajudicial confession, which he repudiated at trial. 1 This, the court of appeals held, rendered the evidence insufficient under the corpus delicti rule which requires that an…