Byers v. State

SMITH, Presiding Judge.

Ronald Everett Byers was indicted on three counts of child molestation involving the nine-year-old daughter of his employee. The trial court directed a verdict of acquittal on one count, and a jury acquitted him of another count and found him guilty of the remaining count. He appeals following the denial of his motion for new trial.

Byers raises two enumerations of error, in which he contends that the trial court erred in giving a jury instruction on voluntary intoxication, that the prosecutor expressed personal opinions in closing argument, and that his counsel was…