Rhodes v. State

John Mauzy Pittman, Chief Judge.

Appellant, a man in Judge. and sexual assault of a twelve-year-old girl. On appeal, he asserts that the trial judge erred in denying his motion for a mistrial. We affirm.

During appellant’s jury trial, the victim testified that she was raped and sexually assaulted by appellant at her home when appellant was her mother’s live-in boyfriend. Although appellant was being tried only for crimes committed against the twelve-year-old victim, another girl testified without objection that she, too, was raped by appellant under similar circumstances when she was fifteen…