Cooper v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

A jury convicted appellant on two counts of aggravated sexual assault. The court of appeals reversed the conviction and remanded the cause for a new trial. Cooper v. State, 901 S.W.2d 757 (Tex.App.-Beaumont 1995). We granted the State’s petition for discretionary review to address the court of appeal’s holding that it was error to admit evidence of extraneous acts similar to the conduct that appellant was charged with, and that the error was not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.

Upon closer scrutiny, it is apparent that the court of appeals…