ELLIS v. STATE

No. A06A1564.

634 S.E.2d 833 (2006)

ELLIS v. The STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

July 25, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ingrid Driskell, Albany, for Appellant.

Kenneth Hodges III, District Attorney, Christopher Cohilas, Assistant District Attorney, Albany, for Appellee.


BLACKBURN, Presiding Judge.

Following a jury trial, Stavinci Ellis appeals his convictions for statutory rape and aggravated child molestation. His sole enumeration of error claims that he received ineffective assistance of counsel when his trial counsel elicited testimony from a State's witness that Ellis refused to take a polygraph examination. Because evidence supported the trial court's finding that this was a reasonable trial tactic, we affirm.

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