Cassady v. State

BOWEN, Judge.

Larry G. Cassady was convicted of sodomy in the first degree and sentenced to 99 years’ imprisonment as a habitual felony offender. On this appeal from that conviction, Cassady contends that evidence that the defendant threatened the victim and evidence of the victim’s church attendance were improperly admitted into evidence.

The victim in this case is the defendant’s 11-year-old stepson. The child testified that he did not report the abuse for three years because he was “scared” and because the defendant had threatened to kill him. In explaining why he decided to report the…