Maner v. State

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

Travis Maner, Jr., appeals his conviction of aggravated sexual battery and child molestation of then an approximately two- to three-year-old child victim. He enumerates ten errors. Held:

1. Appellant enumerates four claims of inadequacy of counsel.(a) Appellant’s trial counsel was not deficient, as asserted in appellant’s first enumeration, in failing to call appellant to the stand to testify. The decision whether to testify in one’s own behalf rests ultimately with the defendant after consultation with his counsel. Van Alstine v. State, 263 Ga. 1, 2 (426 SE2d 360).…