Jose Marvin Martinez v. State

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• holding that medical or physical evidence is not required to corroborate child victim’s testimony
• holding that State is not required to present corroborating or physical evidence
• holding that “the trial court’s instruction to the jury to disregard [an investigator’s] question to appellant sufficiently cured any error arising from the reference to a polygraph examination”
• holding that medical or physical evidence is not required to corroborate child victim’s testimony
• relating that instruction to disregard will generally be sufficient to cure any error resulting from testimony mentioning polygraph when results are not revealed
• concluding the error was harmless “[b]ecause appellant has not demonstrated that the State’s failure to give reasonable notice of the extraneous offenses would have affected his trial strategy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).