Proper v. State

Johnson, Judge.

A jury found John Proper guilty of one count of child molestation and one count of sexual battery arising out of two separate incidents involving his eight-year-old stepdaughter. Proper appeals from his conviction and the denial of his motion for a new trial.

1. Proper alleges that the trial court erred in granting the state’s motion in limine excluding any reference to a previous incident of molestation which did not involve him. Proper sought to have the earlier incident admitted to support his theory that the victim was “confusing” the events. In Hall v. State, 196 Ga. App.…