ORTEGA v. STATE

No. 47434.

500 S.W.2d 816 (1973)

Benito Chavez ORTEGA, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

November 7, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard G. Wilson, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Robert T. Baskett, Asst. Dist. Atty., Dallas, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

The conviction is for assault with intent to commit rape; the punishment, thirty years' imprisonment.

Appellant argues in his first ground of error that the Court erred in allowing the State to exhibit the complainant, a five year old girl named Deborah, before the jury. During the State's examination of complainant's father, Deborah was brought into the courtroom and identified...

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