Legal Opinion
Summitt v. State
Nevada Supreme Court
Decided March 26, 1985No. 14022PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*160OPINION
By the Court,
Mowbray, J.:
A jury found appellant Vernon Summitt guilty of two counts of sexual assault. He seeks reversal of his judgment of conviction asserting several assignments of error, only one of which we find to have merit; that the district judge erred in excluding testimony centered about a prior similar sexual experience of the victim. Accordingly, we reverse and remand the case for a new trial.
A grand jury indicted Summitt for three counts of sexual assault committed on a six year old child. A count charging sexual intercourse was dismissed before the trial because of the…
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