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- Title: Gohring V. State
- Author : Texas Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 18, 1998
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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Larry Gohring appeals his conviction by a jury of two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and three counts of indecency with a child. The jury assessed his punishment at twenty years' confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division and a $10,000 fine for his conviction under count one; ten years' confinement under count two; twenty years' confinement under count three; ten years' confinement under count four; and five years' confinement under count five. Gohring contends in seven points of error that the trial court abused its discretion when it granted a reporter's motion to quash her subpoena and that the trial court erred in: (1) receiving prejudicial hearsay testimony from prosecution witness Sandra Taylor over his timely objection; (2) receiving prejudicial hearsay testimony from witness Marie Woods Petite, over his timely objection; (3) receiving prejudicial hearsay testimony from witness Eunice Contrares over his timely objection; (4) failing to sustain his motion to quash the charging instrument because it appears the offense was barred by limitations; and (5) failing to comply with art. 4495b, § 5.08(g)(10), Tex. Rev. Civ. Stat. Ann. The State, in a single cross-point of error, urges that the trial court erred in failing to instruct the jury that the burden of proof on the issue of limitations was by a preponderance of the evidence.