Slater v. State

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

Hugh Allen Slater, Jr., appellant, was convicted of two counts of rape and two counts of kidnapping involving two different victims. He argues that the trial court misconstrued the rape shield statute and erroneously refused to allow him to present evidence of both prosecutrixes’ sexual consent on other occasions. The trial court correctly applied the statute, and we affirm the judgments of conviction.

At trial appellant asserted a consent defense, and filed a motion pursuant to the rape shield statute, Ark. Code Ann. § 16-42-101 (1987), asking that he be allowed to…