Turner v. State
Decision Date | 17 October 1996 |
Docket Number | No. A96A1702,A96A1702 |
Citation | 223 Ga.App. 448,477 S.E.2d 847 |
Parties | , 96 FCDR 3849 TURNER v. The STATE. |
Court | Georgia Court of Appeals |
James D. Michael, for appellant.
Norris Turner, pro se.
J. Tom Morgan, District Attorney, Lee A. Mangone, Robert M. Coker, Assistant District Attorneys, for appellee.
Defendant was charged in an indictment with rape, statutory rape, and two counts of child molestation. At defendant's jury trial, the then 13-year-old victim, testified that she went to live with her mother in June 1994. This was when K.R. was 12. Defendant, who "was [K. R.'s] mama's boyfriend," also lived there. One day after school, defendant told K.R. "to take [her] panties off and lay on the floor [of her mother's bedroom]." Defendant was clad only in shorts. He pulled them off, and "he had sex with [K. R.]." "His penis touched [K. R.'s] vagina, ... [on the] inside, ... and it hurt[ ]." Defendant also touched K. R.'s "breasts [... and] buttocks [... with] his hands." K.R. related another time when defendant "told [her] to get on top of him[, ... and] his penis touched [her] vagina." This happened "a lot of times." Defendant "told [K.R.] not to tell nobody."
The victim's sister, testified that she had "seen [K.R.] and [defendant]." "They [were] on [her] mom's bed." N.H. affirmed that defendant was "laying on the bed[, ...] on his back[, ... and K.R.] was on top of him." Ms. Janie Mae Woods, K. R.'s grandmother, testified that Since that time, K.R. "S.D." is K. R.'s 14-year-old cousin. S.D. testified that K.R. confirmed to her the events as related by N.H.
The jury acquitted defendant of the rape charge but found him guilty of statutory rape and both counts of child molestation. His motion for new trial was denied, and this appeal followed. Held:
Defendant's sole enumeration of error urges the general grounds. He argues in his brief that the evidence was "contradictory and raised serious questions as to whether the offenses ... actually occurred." "Combining the contradictions in witness testimony and the absence of physical evidence, [defendant contends] no rational trier of fact, having scrutinized the [S]tate's evidence, could have found the essential elements of the crime[s] beyond a reasonable doubt."
1. "A person commits the offense of child molestation when he or she does any immoral or indecent act to or in the presence of or with any child under the age of 16 years with the intent to arouse or satisfy the sexual desires of either the child or the person." OCGA § 16-6-4(a).
(a) Grier v. State, 218 Ga.App. 637, 638(1), 463 S.E.2d 130.
(b) Dent v. State, 220 Ga.App. 147(1), 469 S.E.2d 311. The evidence was sufficient under the standard of Jackson v. Virginia, supra, to authorize the jury's verdicts that defendant committed child molestation beyond a reasonable doubt as...
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