State v. Bell

Defendant appeals from his court conviction of second degree (statutory) rape. ORS 163.365.① The *599only assignment of error relates to a sustained objection to a line of questions defense counsel asked the prosecutrix. (In his brief defendant states that the court erred in “overruling” the objection, but the court sustained the objection and it is obviously because it was sustained that the defendant claims an error was committed.)

Prosecutrix was a 12-year-old girl who reported two months after the event of having had sexual intercourse forced upon her by the defendant. The defendant denied the…