Matthews v. State

OPINION

ELLIS, Justice.

Appellant, William Matthews, appeals his judgment of conviction for the offense of aggravated sexual assault. Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 22.021 (Vernon 1989). The jury rejected appellant’s not guilty plea and found him guilty as charged in the indictment. The court assessed appellant’s punishment at eighteen years confinement in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. We affirm.

The State’s first witness was J.M.B., the complainant, who was nineteen years of age. On August 19, 1987, the night of the sexual assault, she had played basketball and…