Sprouse v. State

After Gary Lynn Sprouse sexually abused a young woman with Down syndrome, a jury convicted him of sexual battery on an intellectually disabled person and lewd or lascivious battery on a disabled adult. On appeal, he argues that the trial court should have granted his motion for judgment of acquittal, that his two convictions violate double jeopardy, and that the trial court should not have allowed the State to introduce hearsay evidence of the twenty-year-old victim’s statements. We affirm.

I

First, Sprouse’s boilerplate motion for judgment of acquittal was insufficient to preserve the issue…