Prather v. State

BLACKBURN, Presiding Judge.

A jury found Bobby Prather guilty of seven counts of sexual offenses against children, from which conviction he appeals. His sole enumeration of error is that the trial court erred in denying his motion for mistrial when one of the victims testified that Prather battered the child’s grandmother shortly after that grandmother stumbled upon Prather molesting that child. Prather argues that this evidence of a separate crime against the grandmother was inadmissible and prejudiced his trial. Because the evidence supported a finding that this battering was part of the res…