Villalon v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

WHITE, Judge.

Appeal is taken from a conviction for aggravated sexual assault. V.T.C.A., Penal Code, § 22.021(a). After a jury found appellant guilty, the trial court assessed his punishment at eighteen years imprisonment in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division. On direct appeal, the Court of Appeals reversed appellant’s conviction and remanded the cause to the trial court for the entry of an acquittal. Villalon v. State, 739 S.W.2d 450 (Tex.App.—13 Dist.1987).

In reversing appellant’s conviction, the Court of…