Ortega v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

The conviction is for assault with intent to commit rape; the punishment, thirty years’ imprisonment.

Appellant argues in his first ground of error that the Court erred in allowing the State to exhibit the complainant, a five year old girl named Deborah, before the jury. During the State’s examination of complainant’s father, Deborah was brought into the courtroom and identified by her father in the presence of the jury. In his brief appellant argues that allowing the father to identify the complainant after the rule had been invoked was error because Deborah was a…