Barker v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendant appeals his conviction of the offense of child molestation. Held:

1. Defendant was charged by separate indictments with the offense of child molestation involving different victims, defendant’s 12-year-old stepdaughter and her 12-year-old female friend. Both offenses were alleged to have occurred on April 12, 1986. On that date defendant, a truck driver, drove from his house in Alabama to the place of business of a trucking company in Fayette County, Georgia, in order to pick up a load he was to drive to Seattle. Defendant was accompanied on this trip by his…