State v. Dye

STROUD, Judge.

Defendant was convicted by a jury of two counts of statutory rape, two counts of incest of a child, second degree rape, and incest. Defendant appeals, arguing the trial court erred by allowing certain testimony from an expert witness and in failing to grant defendant’s motion for a mistrial. For the following reasons, we find no error.

I. Background

The State’s evidence tended to show that in 1993 Ms. Jane Smith 1 and defendant began a romantic relationship; at the time Ms. Smith and defendant began dating, Ms. Smith’s daughter, Mary, was four years old. In 1994, Ms. Smith and…