Matz v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SAM J. DAY, Justice.
A jury convicted Harold Lee Matz of aggravated sexual assault of a child and assessed punishment at life imprisonment and imposed a $10,000 fine. In his first four points, Matz challenges several of the trial court’s evidentiary rulings. In his fifth point, Matz argues that the cumulative errors in this case denied him a fair trial. In his sixth point, he contends that the trial court erred in failing to define the term “reasonable doubt” for the jury in the punishment phase, as it related to proof of extraneous offenses.
We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
The victim, T.M., was…
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