Tucker v. State

HORSEY, Justice:

In this appeal following defendant’s conviction in Superior Court of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, defendant seeks a new trial, claiming reversible error in evidentiary rulings of the trial court and in the court’s admission of testimony prejudicial to defendant. The contested testimony consists principally of out-of-court hearsay statements of the nine-year-old victim and her five-year-old brother concerning the sexual assault, as well as the admission of third-party hearsay statements of prior sexual acts by defendant with the child. Defendant also asserts a…