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STATE v. WAKEFIELD

No. 48193.

278 N.W.2d 307 (1979)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Dennis LeRoy WAKEFIELD, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

March 16, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Paul Jones, Public Defender, Phebe Haugen, Spec. Asst. Public Defender, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Keith M. Brownell, County Atty., John E. DeSanto, Asst. County Atty., Duluth, Mark S. Rubin, Asst. County Atty., Virginia, for respondent.

Heard before SHERAN, C. J., OTIS and KENNEDY, JJ., and considered and decided by the court en banc.

SHERAN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from the June, 1977, conviction of Dennis LeRoy Wakefield of criminal sexual conduct in the first degree. Wakefield claims it was reversible error for the trial court to have admitted into evidence testimony by another woman that Wakefield had raped her, when Wakefield had been acquitted of that charge after a trial in 1971. We agree and reverse.

The factual dispute at trial centered solely around whether the complaining...

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