State v. Wooten

543 S.E.2d 721 (2001)

273 Ga. 529

The STATE

v.

WOOTEN.

No. S00G1574.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

March 2, 2001.

Herbert E. Franklin Jr., Dist. Atty., for appellant.

Cook & Connelly, Bobby Lee Cook, Summerville, Todd M. Johnson, Cohutta, for appellee.

FLETCHER, Presiding Justice.

A jury in the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit convicted Kenneth R. Wooten in April 1997 of four counts of child molestation. The Court of Appeals for the State of Georgia reversed his conviction based on our decision in Cuzzort v. State[1] that the system for assigning cases in that circuit violated state law.[2] We granted the…