State of Tennessee v. Carl G. Dodd

Carl G. Dodd appeals his rape conviction from the Rhea County Circuit Court. Dodd's conviction stems from a sexual assault upon a mentally retarded adult man. He is presently serving an eleven-year sentence in the Department of Correction for this crime. In this direct appeal, he claims that the trial court erred in admitting a psychological report as a business record even though it was not prepared by the agency through whose employee it was admitted, that the lower court erred in admitting evidence of the victim's statements to a caseworker about the crime, and that he was sentenced too harshly. Because we are unpersuaded of harmful error, we affirm.