Potts v. State

Blackburn, Judge.

The defendant, John Christopher Potts, was convicted by a jury of three counts of child molestation and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment with four years’ probation on each count, to serve concurrently. On appeal, the defendant asserts that the trial court erred in denying his motion for new trial.

At trial, one of the victims, the ten-year-old daughter of the defendant’s former girl friend, testified that during the school year of 1991, the defendant pulled down her panties and put his finger in her vagina. On that evening, she went into the bedroom where the defendant and…