State v. Hollingsworth

*579HEDRICK, Chief Judge.

Defendant assigns as error the trial court’s denial of his motion to dismiss for insufficiency of the evidence as to each of the charges. He contends that the only substantive evidence submitted at trial which tends to identify defendant as the perpetrator consists of six out-of-court statements allegedly made by his mother, none of which are admissible as exceptions to the hearsay rule. For the reasons set out below, we agree with defendant and reverse.

At trial, the State called as its first witness defendant’s mother, Helen Lyde, who testified that she had taken Valium…