MURCHISON v. STATE

No. A98A0564.

500 S.E.2d 651 (1998)

231 Ga. App. 769

MURCHISON v. The STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

March 31, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack E. Carney, Jr., Pembroke, for appellant.

Dupont K. Cheney, District Attorney, J. Thomas Durden, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.


JOHNSON, Judge.

A jury found Charles Daniel Murchison guilty of committing child molestation and aggravated child molestation upon his friend's seven-year-old granddaughter. Murchison appeals from his conviction and the denial of his motion for new trial.

Murchison contends that by allowing the victim to sit in her mother's lap while the child testified, the trial court erroneously expressed an opinion about the case. We disagree.

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