Rye v. State

KAREN R. BAKER, Judge.

_jjA Crawford County jury convicted appellant, Lorri Jean Rye, of two counts of rape of her three-year-old son, in violation of Arkansas Code Annotated section 5-14-103 (Repl.2006). She received two ten-year sentences to be served consecutively. Appellant presents three arguments on appeal. First, she alleges that the trial court erred in denying her motion for a directed verdict. Second, she alleges that the trial court erred in admitting child-hearsay evidence because the presumption of unreliability and inadmissibility was not met under Arkansas Rule of Evidence…