Jackson v. State

SHIELDS, Judge.

Dale Jackson appeals the judgment entered after a jury trial that resulted in three convictions for child molesting. 1 He raises two issues for our review:

1) whether the trial court erred in taking judicial notice of a witness's competency, and

2) whether there was sufficient evidence to support the conviction of child molesting through deviate sexual conduct?

We affirm in part and reverse in part.

FACTS

In the spring of 1988, Jackson's wife ran a baby-sitting service in Columbus, Indiana. Jackson, sixty, and his nineteen-year-old son, Barry Jackson, were accused of molesting some…