Hutton v. State

Carley, Chief Judge.

After a jury trial, appellant was found guilty of child molestation and aggravated child molestation. Appellant appeals from the judgments of conviction and sentences that were entered by the trial court on the guilty verdicts.

1. Appellant enumerates as error the trial court’s finding that the four-year-old victim was competent to testify.

Prior to its 1989 amendment, Ga. L. 1989 (Act 674), former OCGA § 24-9-5 provided that “[a] child is competent to testify if the court is satisfied that the child knows and appreciates the fact that ‘as a witness he assumes a solemn and…