Scott v. State

OPINION

Before JACK SMITH, BASS and COHEN, JJ.

BASS, Justice.

A jury convicted appellant of sexual abuse and sentenced him to twenty years confinement.

We affirm.

The complainant, a seventeen-year old boy, was incarcerated in the Galveston County jail and assigned to cell tank 3-E. Immediately after his incarceration, appellant, Sam Alter Scott, began harassing the boy about his body and telling him he wanted them to have sexual intercourse. A week later, appellant told the boy that if he voluntarily submitted it would not be “as bad.” The complainant refused. Later that evening, appellant came to…