Court Opinion

ID: 9671574
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:39:25.915774+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:10.539663
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WOODLEY, Presiding Judge
(dissenting).
I am unable to agree that this conviction for statutory rape by a father upon his 14 year old daughter should be set aside upon the ground that the trial judge erred in failing to sustain appellant’s motion for a mistrial.
There is no doubt that the question: “Without telling me any results, did you take a lie detector test about this?” was improper. The trial judge recognized this and instructed the jury not to consider it.
The objection was: “I object to this and ask for a mistrial. A lie detector test is not introducible in evidence.”
The court’s ruling was: “Sustain the objection, and the jury will not consider that for any purpose whatsoever.”
Insofar as the record reveals counsel was satisfied with the court’s ruling for the trial proceeded and there was no motion thereafter for a mistrial.