Griffith v. State

DODSON, Justice.

In a jury trial, appellant Russell Alan Griffith was convicted of sexual assault. The jury assessed his punishment at confinement for twenty years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division. By three points of error, appellant contends the trial court erred in admitting State’s evidence regarding DNA testing involving a probability of paternity statistic using Bayes’ Theorem as violating the presumption of innocence, or in the alternative, the trial court erred in admitting such evidence without testimony on the mathematical applications of the test…