State v. Small

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

Appellee Eddie Lee Small was charged with committing rape upon Enis Robinson on August 11, 1980. The Arkansas Rape Shield Statute, Ark. Stat. Ann. §§ 41-1810.1 and 41-1810.2 (Repl. 1977) prohibits evidence of the victim’s prior sexual conduct unless, upon written motion and hearing, relevancy of the proffered evidence is established and its probative value outweighs its prejudicial effect. At the pretrial hearing appellee offered evidence of prior inconsistent extrajudicial statements about previous acts of consensual intercourse between the prosecutrix and the…