Sprayberry v. State

Beasley, Judge.

Appellant Sprayberry was indicted for and convicted of molesting his eight and nine-year-old stepdaughters. Held:

1. Sprayberry cites as two errors that the trial court did not conduct its own examination of the two young witnesses whose competency appellant challenged and further, that the evidence showed the witnesses were incompetent and should not have been permitted to testify.

First, at no time did appellant object to the procedure employed by the trial court in determining competency, and as a matter of fact, defendant’s counsel participated in it, fully cross-examining…