Jones v. State

PIVARNIK, Justice.

Defendant-Appellant, Irvin Jones, was convicted of the crime of child molesting, Ind.Code § 35-42-4-3, in a trial to the Grant County Circuit Court on September 2, 1981. He was sentenced to a term of twenty (20) years by the trial judge.

Appellant raises two issues for our review in this direct appeal: 1) error of the trial court in refusing to allow Jones to be present during the taking of certain depositions; and 2) sufficiency of the evidence.

Appellant was charged with unlawfully submitting to deviate sexual conduct by having his eleven year-old daughter, R.J., perform…