Perkins v. State

Smith, Judge.

Robert Earl Perkins was charged with attempted child molestation. He was found guilty by a jury, and he appeals.

1. Perkins raises the general grounds. Construed to support the jury’s verdict, the evidence at trial showed that Perkins’s twelve-year-old niece by marriage was babysitting at her home with a six-year-old child of whom Perkins and his wife had custody. Perkins came to the home of the victim to pick up the six-year-old. In saying good-bye, he approached his niece in the hallway, kissed her on the mouth and tried to place his tongue in her mouth while rubbing her…