Preston Tucker v. State Delaware

In this appeal following defendant's conviction in Superior Court of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, defendant seeks
a new trial, claiming reversible error in evidentiary rulings of the trial court and in the court's admission of testimony
prejudicial to defendant. The contested testimony consists principally of out-of-court hearsay statements of the nine-year-old
victim and her five-year-old brother concerning the sexual assault, as well as the admission of third-party hearsay statements
of prior sexual acts by defendant with the child. Defendant also asserts a Sixth Amendment claim of denial of right of confrontation. Defendant, Preston Tucker, was indicted on one count of Unlawful Sexual Intercourse, First Degree, with the nine-year-old
daughter of the woman with whom Tucker was living. Defendant was found guilty of the offense charged, 11 Del.C. §
775; and following denial of defendant's motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for new trial, defendant was sentenced
to life imprisonment.