Hubbard v. State

In this direct criminal appeal, appellant seeks review of his convictions, entered following a jury trial, of sexual battery upon a child 12 or older without the child’s consent and child abuse by impregnating a child younger than 16. He argues that the trial court committed reversible error when (1) during trial it permitted the state to introduce into evidence a copy of the alleged victim’s child’s birth certificate naming appellant as the child’s father; and (2) following trial it denied a motion for new trial notwithstanding the victim’s recantation of her testimony that the sexual…