Ponder v. State

Appellant was convicted of aggravated sexual assault. Tex.Pen.Code Ann. § 22.-021(a)(4) (Supp.1986). Punishment, enhanced by a prior felony conviction in Oklahoma, was assessed by the jury at life imprisonment. Tex.Pen.Code Ann. § 12.-42(c) (Supp.1986). We will affirm the judgment of conviction.

At approximately 7:30 a.m., Sunday, February 17,1985, Travis County Deputy Sheriff J.W., a female, was assisting the Austin Police Department in the investigation of an abandoned, one-vehicle accident on Interstate Highway 35 in north Austin. Acting on a tip from a bystander, J.W. left the scene of the…