Case ID: or-app_65/html/0221-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Argued and submitted September 20,
    reversed and remanded for a new trial October 19, 1983
    STATE OF OREGON, Respondent, v. WILLIAM ALTON BRYANT, Appellant
    
    (C 82-08-36562; CA A26874)
    670 P2d 238
    Helen I. Bloch, Salem, argued the cause for appellant. With her on the brief was Gary D. Babcock, Public Defender, Salem.
    Jan Peter Londahl, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Dave Frohnmayer, Attorney General, and James E. Mountain, Jr., Solicitor General, Salem.
    Before Gillette, Presiding Judge, and Warden and Young, Judges.
    PER CURIAM
   PER CURIAM

This is a criminal case in which defendant appeals his conviction for promoting prostitution. He assigns as error the court’s admission over timely objection of certain hearsay testimony from two police officers. The state confesses that, if the exceptions taken by defendant to the admission of that evidence were adequate, the court erred. We find the exceptions adequate. The state argues, in the alternative, that the error was harmless, but we hold otherwise.

Reversed and remanded for a new trial. 
      
       We reject defendant’s alternative contention that there was insufficient evidence to sustain his conviction.