Anderson v. State Employment Sec. Div.
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial in Sweetwater County, Appellant was found guilty of third-degree sexual abuse of a minor for offenses committed against a fifteen-year-old girl on a Greyhound bus. Defendant filed a motion for judgment of acquittal, arguing that the State had not offered evidence to prove that the crime had occurred in Sweetwater County. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) that prosecutor’s tactics did not amount to judge-shopping so as to deprive Appellant of his constitutional right to due process; (2) the jury was correctly instructed regarding venue; (3) the evidence established that venue in Sweetwater County was proper; and (4) the prosecutor’s misstatement of the law regarding venue in her closing argument did not constitute reversible error.
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