STATE v. TOWNSEND

No. CR 05-1263.

233 S.W.3d 680 (2006)

STATE of Arkansas, Appellant, v. Denver TOWNSEND, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

April 13, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mike Beebe, Att'y Gen., by: Clayton K. Hodges, Ass't Att'y Gen., Little Rock, AR, for appellant.

Richard G. Miller, Deputy Public Defender, Bentonville, AR, for appellee.


BETTY C. DICKEY, Justice.

The State brings this interlocutory appeal under the rape-shield statute, Ark. Code Ann. § 16-42-101(c)(3)(b) (Supp. 2003), from a pretrial order allowing the defendant-appellee to introduce evidence that the victim, a six-year-old minor, had been sexually assaulted approximately two years prior to the incidents in the present case. Denver Townsend, a sixty-three-year-old male, was charged...

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