Sparrow v. State

The appellant, Kelly Joseph Sparrow, was charged in a two-count indictment with sexual abuse in the first degree and sodomy in the first degree. He was convicted of both offenses and was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment on the sexual abuse conviction and to 25 years' imprisonment on the sodomy conviction, with the sentences to run consecutively. The appellant raises five issues on this appeal from those convictions.

I

The prosecution proved that the appellant sexually abused and sodomized the female victim over a two-year period from March 1989 to March 1991, when the child was from five to…