Eldorado, Texas » The state rested its case Thursday at 12:20 after a Texas Ranger walked jurors through documents that showed Raymond Merril Jessop, 38, spiritually married his alleged victim at a nearby ranch in 2004 and remained there for months afterward.

A "personal record" for the woman showed she arrived at the Yearning For Zion Ranch on Dec. 1, 2003, just months after the sect bought the property. She was 16 at the time.

Texas Ranger Nick Hanna read out loud sections from dictations made by FLDS president Warren S. Jeffs as the jury listened with rapt attention.

In some instances, he read paragraphs; in others, large sections were blacked out leaving only a date or title or single line reference to Jessop or his alleged victim.

Jessop is charged with sexual assault of a child, a crime punishable by two to 20 years in prison. Jessop appeared tired as he sat the defense table with his attorneys, listening intently as he has over the past eight days to the ranger's testimony.

Attorneys will give their closing arguments this afternoon and then the jury will begin deliberations.

A document from Aug. 7, 2004, described Jessop being called as a counselor to assist his father, Merril Jessop, in his duties at the ranch. Another listed Jessop as a temple builder in July 2004 and then as a temple worker in December 2005.

One document, a marriage record, showed Jessop

married the then 15-year-old on Aug. 12, 2004, for "time and eternity," at Jeffs' home at the Yearning for Zion Ranch, where about 600 members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints reside.

Jeffs performed the ceremony, while counselors Wendell Nielsen and Fred M. Jessop were witnesses.

A dictation dated Oct. 19, 2004, said that a "fourth home was to be built" at the ranch for Jessop, its foundation to be completed by Nov. 5 of that year.

A list dated Oct. 7, 2005, of "Babies Born at R-17" showed names of Jessop and his alleged victim and a check mark under a column labeled "girls."

Hanna also read from a "List of Nursing and Expectant Mothers," which under Jessop's name show the alleged victim as a nursing mother in October 2005. As required by 51st District Judge Barbara Walther, names of two pregnant women and two other nursing mothers associated with Jessop were blacked out.

None of the documents were dated from November 2004, when the state alleges the alleged victim became pregnant.

Defense Attorney Mark Stevens focused on that when he asked Walther to give the jury an "instructed verdict" that the state hadn't proved jurisdiction. Walther denied that motion.