Hamill v. State

RAPER, Chief Justice.

Two questions are presented in this appeal. First, may a defendant, who in the course of a fairly continuous and protracted transaction during which he committed several clearly defined acts of sexual assault, be charged with, tried for, and convicted of multiple counts of sexual assault; or is the State required to elect one act of sexual assault in such a trial? The second issue, which is unrelated to the first, inquires whether a doctor-witness’ unsolicited and unresponsive answer to a question asked by the prosecutor in which the doctor said the victim of the crime “*…