PEOPLE v. ORTEGA

No. 81CA0572.

672 P.2d 215 (1983)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Joseph ORTEGA, Defendant-Appellant.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. III.

Rehearing Denied September 15, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J.D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., Charles B. Howe, Deputy Atty. Gen., Joel W. Cantrick, Sol. Gen., John Milton Hutchins, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for plaintiff-appellee.

Cecil L. Turner, Pueblo, for defendant-appellant.


VAN CISE, Judge.

Defendant, Joseph Steven Ortega, was found guilty by a jury of sexual assault on a four-year-old boy in violation of § 18-3-405, C.R.S.1973 (1978 Repl.Vol. 8). Ortega appeals his conviction. We affirm.

I.

The child victim was not called as a witness at the trial. Instead, over the hearsay objections of defense counsel, the court allowed the mother, a physician, and a police officer to testify to statements made to each by the...

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