Davis v. State

Smith, Judge.

Charles Davis was found guilty by a jury of the offenses of statutory rape and child molestation. His extraordinary motion for new trial was denied, and the trial court granted his motion for this out- of-time appeal.

1. Davis enumerates the general grounds. The evidence presented at trial showed that Davis’s wife asked the victim, a 13-year-old friend, to accompany her and the Davises’ baby daughter to a doctor’s appointment in order to babysit with the child. The victim’s mother allowed the victim to spend the night at the Davises’ apartment because the appointment was early the…