Legal Opinion

Rivera v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided September 25, 1985No. 141-85Published

1Opinion of the Court

ORDER

2Per curiam

Appellant was convicted by a jury of the offense of sexual abuse of a child. On appeal, a panel majority of the Houston [14th] Court of Appeals held, inter alia, that it was not reversible error to require appellant to demonstrate on an anatomically correct doll how he had placed his mouth on the penis of the complainant. Rivera v. State, 684 S.W.2d 174 (Tex.App.—Hou. [14th] 1984). However, our review of the record does not reveal that appellant ever demonstrated the act itself although instructed to do so by the prosecutor. Therefore, our refusal of appellant’s petition for…

3Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Rivera v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1984

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