GOODSON v. STATE

No. 07-KA-58650.

566 So.2d 1142 (1990)

Richard Dale GOODSON v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied August 22, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Duncan Lott, Booneville, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen., elected Supreme Court Justice Jan. 3, 1989, Mike C. Moore, Atty. Gen., and George W. Neville and Pat Flynn, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

En banc.


ROBERTSON, Justice for the Court:

I.

Today's appeal charges once again that we vindicate the right of one accused of child sexual abuse to a fair trial according to accepted rules of evidence, while at once shielding the complainant from undue additional trauma, nor undermining the people's powerful interest in persistent prosecution of abusers. All of this we may seek only according to law. Because the trial court allowed the jury to hear an inadmissible...

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