State v. Barfield

Defendant appeals his conviction for sexual abuse in the second degree. ORS 163.415. He contends that the trial court erred in denying his motion to dismiss the indictment and in sustaining objections to questions which he asked on cross-examination of the state’s principal witness and to evidence that he offered to impeach her. We affirm.

In his motion to dismiss, defendant argued that it was constitutionally impermissible to try him for a misdemeanor in circuit court rather than in district court. Such a trial, he urged, would violate state and federal constitutional provisions because a…