STATE v. BUTLER

43317.

256 Ga. 448 (1986)

349 S.E.2d 684

THE STATE v. BUTLER.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied November 25, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. A. Foster III, District Attorney, Christine C. Daniel, Assistant District Attorney, for appellant.

Lane & Sanders, Thomas C. Sanders, for appellee.


HUNT, Justice.

We granted the state's application for certiorari in this case after the Court of Appeals reversed Gary Wayne Butler's convictions for statutory rape, aggravated sodomy and child molestation. The Court of Appeals held that the trial court erred in allowing the pediatrician, who had examined the seven-year-old victim, to testify that in her opinion the child had been molested, which was an ultimate issue to be decided by the jury. Butler v. State...

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