Hutchinson v. State

OPINION

JUNELL, Justice.

A jury found appellant guilty of aggravated sexual assault and assessed punishment, enhanced by two prior felony convictions, at thirty years in the Texas Department of Corrections.

In a single point of error appellant asserts the trial court erred in refusing to grant his request for a transcript of a prior trial of the same case. We affirm.

Appellant was indicted for the aggravated sexual assault of a pregnant young woman. The first trial resulted in a mistrial after the jury became deadlocked. The second trial began four days later. After two of the state’s witnesses…