Hall v. State

Judge Harold R. Banke.

Jerry Stewart Hall was convicted of one count of child molestation involving his daughter. Following the denial of his motion for new trial, Hall enumerates two errors. Held:

1. Hall asserts that the State failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that venue was in Catoosa County. Pretermitting whether Hall properly raised and preserved the issue of venue below, we are unable to find merit to this claim.1

The threshold question is the applicable standard of proof for venue. As the dissent correctly notes, the Supreme Court of Georgia’s decisions have been inherently…