People v. Jensen

VOLLACK, Justice.

The appellant, Oliver Samuel Jensen, (Jensen or the defendant), was convicted by a jury of one count of sexual assault on a child. He appeals from his conviction, asserting error in certain evidentiary rulings and in a jury instruction. He also challenges the constitutionality of the controlling statute. 1 We reject the appellant’s allegations of reversible error and affirm his conviction.

I

In December 1984, the police department received a telephone tip that a nine-year-old girl, B.T., had been sexually assaulted by the defendant, who was eighty-two years old at the time.…