COLLAZO v. STATE

No. 59342.

623 S.W.2d 647 (1981)

Faustino COLLAZO, Jr., Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Panel No. 1.

Rehearing Denied December 2, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Will A. Morriss, Jr., San Antonio, for appellant.

Joe Grady Tuck, Dist. Atty., Kerrville, Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before ONION, P. J., and ROBERTS and DALLY, JJ.


OPINION

ROBERTS, Judge.

A jury found the appellant guilty of sexual abuse and assessed a punishment of confinement for twelve years. The question presented is whether the trial court erred in admitting evidence of an extraneous offense. Such questions involve principles of law which were stated well in Murphy v. State, 587 S.W.2d 718, 721-722 (Tex. Cr.App.1979) (footnotes omitted) (emphases omitted):

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