Wood v. State

STEELE, Chief Justice:

Appellant-defendant Bruce Wood appeals his Superior Court convictions on Rape First Degree and Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child. 1 A grand jury indicted Wood on eighteen counts of Rape First Degree and two counts of Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child for incidents involving two different children in the same indictment. Wood argues on appeal that the motion judge abused his discretion when he denied Wood’s motion to sever the two separate series of incidents. He contends that trying the incidents together in one trial prejudiced him. The State responds that the alleged…