Farmer v. State

Blackburn, Judge.

Farmer appeals his conviction for child molestation of his niece, contending that the trial court erroneously admitted similar transaction evidence of a prior act of molestation against another one of his nieces. Farmer further contends that the trial court erred by refusing to give a limiting instruction requested by him with regard to such evidence at the time that it was admitted. For the reasons set forth below, we reverse Farmer’s conviction.

1. In his first enumeration of error, Farmer contends that evidence of a prior act of molestation against another one of his nieces…