Stidam v. State

DAVID M. GLOVER, Judge.

| Appellant, Monty Stidam, was convicted by a Benton County jury of rape and sexual assault in the second degree. The victim was Stidam’s three-year-old nephew, J.S. Stidam was sentenced to the Arkansas Department of Correction for forty years and twenty years respectively, with the sentences to be served consecutively. On appeal, Stidam contends that the trial court erred in denying his motions for directed verdict; in admitting what he deems unreliable, testimonial child-hearsay statements made by the victim; and in denying his motion to suppress his custodial…