Lasley v. State

GIVAN, Justice. .

A jury trial resulted in the conviction of appellant on eleven counts of Child Molesting. The trial judge sentenced appellant on each of the eleven counts, all sentences to run consecutively, totalling one hundred twenty-four (124) years.

In 1984, appellant had been convicted in a jury trial in the Floyd Superior Court of child molesting. Judge Striegel, the same judge who presided over the instant case, also presided in the prior trial, During the prior trial, the State called thirteen children to testify against appellant under the depraved sexual instinct rule. Essentially…