Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

In a prosecution for aggravated sexual assault of a child, conviction is affirmed where: 1) a child-victim's statement identifying her assailant to a mental-health therapist may be admissible under an exception to the hearsay rule; 2) in this case, the prosecution did not carry its burden to demonstrate that the statement in question should be excepted from the rule; but 3) the error in admitting the testimony was harmless.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/29/2008
• Published 10/29/2008

Judges

Court

• Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Nicole Deborde, Houston, for Appellant., Carol M. Cameron, Assistant District Attorney, Houston, Jeffrey L. Van Horn, State's Attorney, Austin, for State.