Farris v. State

Miller, Judge.

A Gwinnett County jury found James Ford Farris guilty of two counts of incest, one count of aggravated child molestation, and one count of child molestation.1 On appeal, Farris claims that he received ineffective assistance of trial counsel. For the reasons set forth below, we disagree and affirm.

Viewed in a light most favorable to the jury’s verdict, the evidence shows that Farris moved with his wife, his son, and his two *675stepdaughters, J. D. and J. L., from Wisconsin to Georgia in September 1999. At the time of the move, J. D. was 14 years old and pregnant with Farris’s child,…