Jackson v. State

David Newbern, Justice.

The appellant was charged October 31,1984, with rape of a child less than eleven years old by sexual intercourse and deviate sexual activity by forcible compulsion. Ark. Stat. Ann. § 41-1803 (Repl. 1977). This statute has since been amended to make the “statutory rape” age less than fourteen. See Ark. Stat. Ann. § 41-1803 (Supp. 1985). The appellant was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. He alleges error in allowing the victim and her five-year-old brother to testify at the trial. He also alleges it was error to have allowed the mother of the alleged…