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STATE v. ROGERS

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293 S.C. 505 (1987)

362 S.E.2d 7

The STATE, Respondent v. John E. ROGERS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided November 9, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Asst. Appellate Defender Daniel T. Stacey, Office of Appellate Defense, Columbia, for appellant.

Atty. Gen. T. Travis Medlock, Asst. Attys. Gen. Harold M. Coombs, Jr., Norman Mark Rapoport and Amie L. Clifford, Columbia, and Sol. James O. Dunn, Conway, for respondent.

Heard September 22, 1987.

Decided November 9, 1987.

NESS, Chief Justice:

Appellant was convicted of committing a lewd act on his ten (10) year old daughter and sentenced to imprisonment for ten (10) years. We reverse.

The trial judge permitted a child psychiatrist to give her opinion that the victim exhibited the behavioral traits of a child who has been sexually abused and to state her belief that the victim had been sexually abused for a...

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