Hicks v. State

Cooper, Judge.

After a jury trial, appellant was found guilty of two counts of child molestation and one count of cruelty to children. He appeals from the judgment of conviction and sentence entered by the trial court on the verdicts.

Appellant’s wife and her three daughters were returning home one evening when the eldest child began to cry, asking that they not go home. In response to repeated questions and after numerous assurances that she would not be punished, the seven-year-old told her mother that appellant, her step-father, molested her on a number of occasions late at night after…