Dorn v. State

George Rose Smith, Justice.

This is an interlocutory appeal from the trial court’s ruling at a pretrial hearing under the rape-shield statute. Ark. Stat. Ann. §§ 41-1810.1 et seq. (Repl. 1977). The trial court sustained the admissibility of proffered proof concerning prior sexual activity between the prosecutrix and the defendant and concerning a statement made by the prosecutrix suggesting a questionable motive for her charge of rape. The appeal challenges the court’s further ruling that evidence of the prosecutrix’s reputation for chastity and morality and of her prior sexual activity with…