State v. Wilson

Defendant appeals from conviction of rape in the first degree (ORS 163.375(1) (c)), assigning as error the admission into evidence of a hearsay statement identifying him as his daughter’s assailant.

The 14-year-old prosecutrix testified that she fled her father’s mobile home, in the darkness of night, barefoot and clad in a bathrobe, at the earliest opportunity following the attack and shortly thereafter encountered “a man in a pickup” who notified the authorities upon being told “what had happened.”

The man to whom prosecutrix had reported the rape was thereafter also called as a witness by…