Little v. State

SHEPARD, Justice.

Appellant Calvin Little was convicted after a jury trial of rape, a class B felony, Ind.Code § 85-42-4-1(a) (Burns 1985 Repl). He was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of twenty years.

In this direct appeal, Little argues the trial court erred when it admitted evidence of an alleged rape for which he had been acquitted sixteen months earlier. Little contends that in a criminal prosecution the doctrine of collateral estoppel bars the admission of evidence of a crime for which the defendant has been acquitted.

The facts most favorable to the judgment are as follows. Little…