Price v. State

ON APPLICATION FOR REHEARING

TAYLOR, Judge.

The opinion previously issued in this case is hereby withdrawn and the following corrected opinion substituted therefor.

Appellant Raymond Price was convicted of child abuse, a violation of § 26-15-3, Code of Alabama 1975. He was sentenced to ten years in prison.

The appellant contends that the victim, a four-year-old child, should not have been allowed to testify without the court’s first establishing that she was competent. Specifically, he argues that the state should not have been allowed to proceed under the sexual abuse statute, § 15-25-3(c), Code…