Douthitt v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

Appellant, Ralph Douthitt, was convicted of sixty-one felony counts for rape, incest and violation of a minor, and was sentenced to serve 174 years at the Department of Correction. Douthitt brings this appeal with eight points for reversal. For an understanding of the issues, a short statement of the facts is necessary.

On March 28, 1995, Misty Wilson, eighteen years old, confided in her mother, Tammy Douthitt, that her stepfather, Ralph Douthitt, had been sexually abusing her since approximately 1988, when she was eleven years old. Misty told her mother that over the course…