Sims v. State

Mikell, Judge.

Following a jury trial, Thomas Lincoln Sims was convicted of two counts of child molestation. The trial court sentenced him as a recidivist to 30 years in confinement. Sims appeals from the denial of his motion for a new trial, contending that the trial court erred by questioning the victim and by charging the jury on expert testimony, and that trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance of counsel. We affirm, but remand to the trial court for a determination of Sims’s claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel.

Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, 2 the…