Baker v. State

RUCKER, Justice.

After a conviction for three counts of child molesting the defendant appealed contending, among other things, that his convictions must be vacated because they were not the product of a unanimous jury verdict. We granted transfer to explore this issue.

Facts and Procedural History

On July 3, 2006 the State charged then fifty-nine-year-old Elmer Dean Baker with two counts of child molesting as Class A felonies. The victims of the alleged offenses were two of Baker’s grandchildren, C.B. and J.A. And the offenses were alleged to have occurred in “June and July of 2003.” Appellant’s…