Young v. State

This is an appeal by the defendant Mark John Young from a final judgment of conviction and sentence for aggravated battery which was entered below based on an adverse jury verdict. We reverse and remand for a new trial based on a holding that the trial court committed reversible error in admitting in evidence, over objection, a highly prejudicial hearsay statement made to a police officer by a non-testifying third party.

The defendant testified in this case that he stabbed the complainant with a knife in self defense after the complainant had struck the defendant in the face with a pipe.…