Hoover v. State

ON PETITION TO TRANSFER

KRAHULIK, Justice.

Appellant-Defendant William P. Hoover, was convicted by a jury of three counts of child molesting, class C felonies. He now seeks transfer following the Court of Appeals' affirmance of his conviction. (1991) Ind.App., 582 N.E.2d 408.

Defendant raises several issues for our review. The first concerns whether the trial court erred in refusing defendant's motion for psychiatric examination of the child witnesses. In support of his argument, Hoover cites Easterday v. State (1970), 254 Ind. 13, 256 N.E.2d 901. In Easterday, a conviction on a charge of sodomy…