Drummond v. State

JOHNSON, Presiding Judge.

Curtis Drummond was convicted of child molestation and statutory rape. He appeals, claiming that the trial court erred in failing to give a curative instruction to the jury and that his trial counsel was ineffective. The claims are without merit, and we thus affirm Drummond’s conviction.

On April 1, 2002, Drummond went to the mobile home of his friend Jeanette Maynard. That evening, Maynard, her friend Eddie Swint, her 17-year-old daughter Brandy Hicks, Hicks’ 17-year-old boyfriend Alfred McKeithern, a 14-year-old girl who was Hicks’ friend, and 28-year-old Drummond…