Court Opinion

ID: 9863179
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 03:10:08.126739+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:47:49.992958
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MALONEY, Judge,
dissents with note:
Believing the Court of Appeals properly reviewed the evidence and applied the appropriate law, I dissent. Arcila v. State, 834 S.W.2d 357 (Tex.Crim.App.1992). The victim’s testimony that she never saw a knife or any other weapon, together with appellant’s testimony that he did not threaten the victim, amounts to some evidence that would permit a jury rationally to find that if appellant is guilty, he is guilty only of the lesser included offense of sexual assault. See Rousseau v. State, 855 S.W.2d 666, 673 (Tex.Cr.App.1993).