Hunter v. State

Barnes, Judge.

A jury convicted Timothy Hunter of aggravated sexual battery, child molestation and cocaine possession, and the trial court sentenced him to serve 13 years. The trial court then resentenced Hunter on its own motion, because he had been tried as a recidivist and the initial sentencing was void. Hunter appeals, enumerating three errors: the trial court’s refusal to sever the drug charge from the molestation and battery charges; its refusal to grant a continuance when a material witness failed to appear; and its failure to consider probating part of the sentence when resentencing…