Joiner v. State

Eldridge, Judge.

A Fayette County jury convicted Antoine Joiner of aggravated child molestation and statutory rape against a 12-year-old girl. The superior court sentenced him consecutively to 50 years to serve. On appeal, Joiner contends that the evidence was insufficient to authorize his conviction for statutory rape because the State failed to prove that the victim was not his spouse. Joiner further contends that the superior court’s child molestation charge was error because it charged the entire Code section defining child molestation, exceeding the scope of the indictment, i.e., although…