Kim v. State

Judge Harold R. Banke.

Susan Marie Kim was convicted of masturbation for hire. She challenges the sufficiency of the evidence on appeal.

This case arose after law enforcement authorities received a complaint from a woman whose husband purportedly had paid for a sexual act at a local health spa. Price v. State, 222 Ga. App. 655, 657 (2) (475 SE2d 692) (1996) (evidence on appeal must be viewed in a light most favorable to the verdict). A detective arranged for a confidential informant who had previously received sexual stimulation at the spa to investigate. The confidential informant made an…