STATE v. WALTON


432 A.2d 1275 (1981)

STATE of Maine v. Frederick W. WALTON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided August 3, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Cox, Dist. Atty., Gary F. Thorne Asst. Dist. Atty., (orally), Bangor, for plaintiff.

Libhart, Ferris, Dearborn, Willey & Ferm, Joel A. Dearborn (orally), Brewer, for defendant.

Before McKUSICK, C. J., and GODFREY, NICHOLS, GLASSMAN, ROBERTS and CARTER, JJ.


ROBERTS, Justice.

Frederick W. Walton appeals the judgment of conviction for unlawful sexual contact, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 255 (Supp.1980), entered against him on a jury verdict in the Superior Court, Penobscot County. Walton asserts that the presiding justice erred in permitting the six-year-old prosecutrix to testify and in admitting in evidence testimony of what the prosecutrix told her mother about the alleged criminal...

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