State v. Allen

This cause came on to be heard upon the appeal, the transcript of the docket, journal entries and original papers from the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas, the transcript of the proceedings, the assignments of error, the briefs and the arguments of counsel.

The defendant-appellant, Steve Allen, was convicted of two counts of rape in a bench trial. In his appeal, Allen raises issues involving whether the victim of the offenses, a child who was six years old at the time of the rapes and nine years old at the time of trial, was competent to testify, and whether the trial court erred when it…