State v. Hackett

Defendant was convicted of two counts of first degree rape (ORS 163.375) and two counts of first degree sodomy (ORS 163.405). The victim of the assaults was defendant’s fourteen year old daughter. He appeals, contending that the trial court erred by admitting testimony of a school friend of the daughter that the daughter had complained to the friend of being sexually abused by her father. We agree with defendant’s contention and we reverse and remand for a new trial.

The state alleged that defendant committed sexual assaults on his daughter on approximately June 15, 1979, and September 2,…