State v. Joyce

JOHNSON, Judge.

The State’s evidence tended to show the following: The two sisters, who were six and four years of age at the time of the alleged incidents, both testified that they were frequently in defendant’s mobile home. Each of the girls testified that sometime in 1987 defendant “[sjtuck his hand” on or in their “private part[s],” that it hurt, and that defendant had done it before. The girls also stated that defendant threatened to shoot or kill them if they told anyone.

Bill McCaskill of the Department of Social Services, who had investigated a report of neglect involving the sisters,…