Jacobsen v. State

OPINION

JAN P. PATTERSON, Justice.

A jury found appellant William Thomas Jacobsen guilty of continuous sexual abuse of a child, and the trial court assessed punishment at life imprisonment. See Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 21.02 (West Supp. 2009). In two points of error, appellant contends that section 21.02 violates the Texas Constitution’s jury unanimity requirement and that the indictment was fundamentally defective. We overrule these contentions and affirm the conviction.

Appellant was the coach of a youth baseball team. Players on the team and their friends would sometimes spend the night at his…