State v. Wade

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Six, J.:

Gary Wade was convicted of aggravated criminal sodomy, K.S.A. 1987 Supp. 21-3506.

The first issue in his appeal is whether the trial court had jurisdiction. Was the criminal complaint, used as an information, defective because it failed to allege that the five-year-old child victim, S.E., was not married to the offender?

The trial court did have jurisdiction. The information was not defective.

A secondary issue focuses on the trial court’s admission, over Wade’s objection, of the testimony of a social rehabilitation service worker who had observed…