State v. Honeycutt

OPINION

ADOLPHO A. BIRCH, JR., J.,

delivered the opinion of the court,

in which FRANK F. DROWOTA, III, C.J, E. RILEY ANDERSON, JANICE M. HOLDER, and WILLIAM M. BARKER, JJ., joined.

Michael Shane Honeycutt was convicted of aggravated child abuse; the Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction. Honeycutt' contends that he was denied effective assistance of counsel due to trial counsel’s failure to employ a theory of defense seeking to establish the child’s mother as the perpetrator. We hold that trial counsel’s performance was deficient in this regard and that this deficiency prejudiced the…