Wright v. State

Beasley, Judge.

Defendant appeals his conviction of aggravated child molestation. OCGA § 16-6-4 (c). He enumerates as error: permitting the victim, T. W., to testify without determining her competency; refusing to give a part of defendant’s requested instruction referencing suggestibility of a witness.

1. The crimes allegedly occurred in April and May 1988, and trial was held in March 1990. This all preceded April 19, 1989, the effective date of OCGA § 24-9-5 (b).

The assistant district attorney called as the State’s last witness the seven-year-old victim and began questioning her, expressly…