Davitt v. State

Johnson, Judge.

David Davitt was found guilty of child molestation and aggravated child molestation for offenses committed against his friend’s five-year-old sister. He appeals from the convictions entered on the jury’s verdict.

1. Davitt claims the trial court erred in allowing the child’s mother to bolster the child’s credibility. When the prosecutor asked the mother whether her child was generally credible, the mother responded that the child “doesn’t go around lying,” but then volunteered examples of when the child had lied in the past. Davitt did not object to the state’s question, the…