Word v. State

SMITH, Presiding Judge.

Lathan Word was convicted of armed robbery. The trial court denied Word’s motion for new trial, and this appeal followed, with Word asserting as his sole enumeration of error ineffective assistance of trial counsel. We find that counsel was ineffective in failing to object to a police officer’s comment on the credibility of the victim. We also find that a reasonable probability exists that the result of the trial would have been different but for that failure. We therefore reverse.

To establish ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. Washington a defendant…