State v. Carpenter

MARTIN, Judge.

Defendant was charged, in proper bills of indictment, with five counts of taking indecent liberties with children and with three counts of first degree sexual offense. A jury found him guilty as charged. Defendant appeals from the judgment entered upon the verdicts.

Briefly summarized, the State’s evidence at trial tended to show that sometime after 1 August 1994, B.J.D., the alleged victim, (hereinafter “Bobby”) accompanied his mother to her alcohol treatment classes and met defendant, his mother’s fellow classmate. Defendant told Bobby’s mother that he did ministry work and…