State v. King

The appellants and two other young men were charged with the crime of carnal knowledge, and the appellants and one of the others were found guilty by the jury. Their single assignment of error concerns the admission of certain testimony by a doctor who examined the complaining witness three days after the alleged occurrence.

Over the objections of the appellants, the doctor was permitted to testify concerning statements made to him by the prosecuting witness, who was a girl thirteen years of age. The doctor explained that before he would undertake a pelvic examination of a girl that age, he…