Shields v. State

Richard B. Adkisson, Chief Justice.

In a trial by jury in Washington County Circuit Court, appellant was convicted of two charges of deviate sexual activity involving his 8!^ year old stepdaughter and 6 year old stepson, and was sentenced to the maximum punishment of forty years for each charge. The trial court ordered the sentences to run consecutively. From this conviction appellant appeals arguing that (1) the evidence was insufficient to support the jury verdict; (2) the trial court erred in failing to give a limiting instruction on the testimony of an expert witness; and (3) the…