Case Name: STATE OF OREGON, Respondent, v. WILLIAM ALTON BRYANT, Appellant
Court: Oregon Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oregon
Decision Date: 1983-10-19
Citations: 65 Or. App. 221
Docket Number: C 82-08-36562; CA A26874
Parties: STATE OF OREGON, Respondent, v. WILLIAM ALTON BRYANT, Appellant
Judges: Before Gillette, Presiding Judge, and Warden and Young, Judges.
Reporter: Oregon Reports, Court of Appeals
Volume: 65
Pages: 221–222

Head Matter:
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

Opinion:
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.