Commonwealth v. Smith

*490 OPINION

CAPPY, Justice.

The question before the Court is whether testimony by a nurse wherein she repeated a statement made to her by an injured child identifying the child’s alleged abuser was inadmissible hearsay or whether such testimony was properly admitted under the medical treatment exception to the hearsay rule.

The testimony at trial revealed the following. Appellant testified that he was asleep at his home on a couch downstairs. N.T., March 8, 1993, at p. 111. His wife had sent their 5 year old daughter, Priscilla, upstairs to draw Priscilla’s bath water. Id. The Appellant woke up and…