State v. Melton

McGEE, Judge.

Antoine Donyell Melton (defendant) was convicted of first-degree rape of a child (the child) under the age of thirteen. The trial court sentenced defendant to 192 months to 240 months in prison. Defendant appeals.

Defendant’s issues on appeal do not require a statement of the facts for an understanding of our Court’s determination of those issues. Defendant argues “the trial court committed plain error [by] allowing the State to introduce as substantive evidence the results of a laboratory report without presenting the maker of the report for cross-examination and confrontation.”…