State v. Couch

LAURA DENVIR STITH, Chief Justice.

Philip Ray Couch was convicted of child molestation and two counts of endangering the welfare of a minor. On appeal, he argues that he offered extrinsic evidence that one of his three victims had made a prior false allegation of sexual abuse and a prior false allegation of physical abuse against other persons and that the trial court erred in precluding him from questioning her about these specific alleged prior instances of misconduct. He also argues that the trial court erroneously permitted the state’s expert to vouch for the credibility of certain of the…