Legal Opinion
Riley v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)
Decided January 7, 1998No. 03-96-00229-CRPublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEA ANN SMITH, Justice.
Paul Alan Riley was charged with sexually assaulting a child by penetrating her mouth with his sexual organ. See Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 22.021(a)(l)(B)(ii) (West Supp.1997). The jury found him guilty and sentenced him to ten years in the Texas Department of Corrections, probated, and fined him $10,000. Mr. Riley brings thirteen points of error, all implicating his defense at trial that the fourteen-year-old victim was promiscuous as a matter of law. We will affirm the trial court’s judgment of conviction.
Background
This sordid tale involves Paul Riley, Sr., and his three…
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