Hathcock v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “testimony . . . that defendant was abused as a child was irrelevant to the question of whether he committed the crime of child molestation”
• any alleged error in excluding testimony was harmless given the cumulative nature of the excluded evidence
• jury could find intent from act of defendant of exposing himself to a child
• jury authorized to infer from defendant’s conduct of exposing himself to a child that he possessed the requisite intent even though he argued that his intent was not sexual

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).