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  "name": "Lionel GREEN v. STATE of Arkansas",
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      "Lionel GREEN v. STATE of Arkansas"
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        "text": "Tom Glaze, Judge.\nAppellant was convicted by jury of committing sexual abuse in the first degree and sentenced to six years imprisonment. He argues, through new, substituted counsel on appeal, that the trial court erred in (1) overruling his motion for directed verdict, (2) failing to give instructions on certain lesser included offenses, and (3) allowing the prosecuting attorney to make a prejudicial statement in closing argument.\nWe are unable to reach the merits of appellant\u2019s second and third issues. Regarding the appellant\u2019s second point, he is bereft of his instructions argument because he failed to proffer any instructions that contained what he believed to be correct lesser included offenses of first degree sex abuse. Because no lesser included instructions appear in the transcript or in the abstract of record, we are unable to consider this assigned error. Williams v. Fletcher, 267 Ark. 961, 965 (1980) (per curiam denying reh\u2019g). Next, we do not consider appellant\u2019s point three because no objection was made at trial to the prosecuting attorney\u2019s remarks which are alleged to be prejudicial. Because this asserted error was not presented to the trial court and is raised for the first time on appeal, we do not reach its merits.\nWe now consider appellant\u2019s final contention that the trial court should have granted his motion for a directed verdict. In support of his argument, appellant contends that there was no proof that he had sexual contact with the eight year old girl whom he was convicted of sexually abusing. In our review on appeal, we are guided by the established rules that a directed verdict is proper only when no fact issue exists and that this court must review the evidence in the light most favorable to the appellee and affirm if there is any substantial evidence. Tucker v. State, 3 Ark. App. 89, 622 S.W.2d 202 (1981).\nAppellant was convicted under Ark. Stat. Ann. \u00a7 41-1808 (Repl. 1977), which, in pertinent part, provides:\nSexual abuse in the first degree. \u2014 (1) A person commits sexual abuse in the first degree if:\n(c) being eighteen (18) years or older, he engages in sexual contact with a person not his spouse who is less than fourteen (14) years old.\n\u201cSexual contact\u201d is defined in Ark. Stat. Ann. \u00a7 41-1801 (8) (Repl. 1977) as \u201cany act of sexual gratification involving the touching of the sex organs or anus of a person, or the breast of a female.\u201d\nIn reviewing the record, we find that the eight year old girl testified the appellant spoke to her as she was leaving the swimming pool located in the Lake Chicot State Park. After a brief conversation she said the appelant raised her bathing suit and stuck his finger between her legs. After the incident, she went home and told her mother what had occurred. The girls\u2019s mother testified (without objection) that her daughter was crying when she came home and said, \u201cWhen I got out of the swimming pool, there was a man and he grabbed me and put his finger up my swimming suit.\u201d On cross-examination, the mother said that she asked her daughter exactly what happened and she related all the events which had occurred at the swimming pool, including that the appellant \u201creached up his hand and pulled her bathing suit apart and stuck his finger up her.\u201d\nThe girl\u2019s father also testified that his daughter told him the same story as she told her mother. Her father testified (without objection) that his daughter said that a man stopped her and \u201chad put his hand under her bathing suit and put his finger in her poo-pooh.\u201d The father took his daughter back to the swimming pool, and she identified appellant. Another witness, a Ms. Owens, testified that she had observed appellant with the girl at about the time the incident allegedly occurred. Appellant testified, denying that he touched the girl.\nIn sum, the parents\u2019 and girl\u2019s testimonies demonstrate that appellant, in violation of \u00a7\u00a7 41-1808 and -1801 (8), supra, engaged in \u201csexual contact\u201d with the girl. The trial court\u2019s decision, overruling appellant\u2019s motion for directed verdict, was based on substantial evidence. Therefore, we affirm this case in all respects.\nAffirmed.\nappellant attempts to minimize the effect of each parent\u2019s testimony by calling it hearsay. No objection was made to such testimony, and it is certainly arguable that the testimony, concerning their girl\u2019s remarks after the incident, was admissible as an \u201cexcited utterance\u201d under Rule 803 (2) of the Uniform Rules of Evidence. Nonetheless, we do not address this issue because it was not raised below.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Tom Glaze, Judge."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Jerry E. Mazzanti, for appellant.",
      "Steve Clark, Atty. Gen., by: Michael E. Wheeler, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Lionel GREEN v. STATE of Arkansas\nCA CR 82-179\n646 S.W.2d 20\nCourt of Appeals of Arkansas\nOpinion delivered February 9, 1983\nJerry E. Mazzanti, for appellant.\nSteve Clark, Atty. Gen., by: Michael E. Wheeler, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee."
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