Willingham v. State

Ruffin, Judge.

A jury found Curtis Willingham guilty of child molestation and statutory rape and not guilty of aggravated child molestation. Willingham appeals, asserting that the trial court erred in allowing his character to be impermissibly placed into issue at trial and in not charging the jury on the defenses of accident and mistake of fact. Willingham also enumerates as error several instances of ineffective assistance of trial counsel. We affirm Willingham’s conviction, but remand the ineffective assistance claim to the trial court for an evidentiary hearing.

1. Willingham first contends…