Barnes v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

Appellant Barnes was convicted of raping the fourteen-year-old daughter of a long-time family friend and was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and five additional years on probation. He appeals from this judgment, assigning as error the denial of his motion for new trial and the admission into evidence of the allegedly hearsay testimony of the adult friend to whom the prosecutrix recounted the rape incident on the following day, as well as the testimony of appellant’s physician regarding matters allegedly protected by the psychiatrist-patient privilege. The final…