State v. Lash

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Prager, J.:

This is an appeal by the State on a question reserved following the defendant’s acquittal by a jury on a charge of aggravated indecent liberties with a child (K.S.A. 1983 Supp. 21-3504). The defendant was charged with sexually molesting his fifteen-year-old son. The son maintained that this had happened on 20 or more separate occasions, the most recent being on January 19, 1984.

The county attorney, as part of the pretrial investigation, had the alleged victim interviewed and tested by Dr. Les Ruthven, a Kansas Board Certified Psychologist…