Cline v. State

Judge Harold R. Banke.

James Cline was convicted of cruelty to children and two counts of child molestation. On appeal he enumerates four errors.

The evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, revealed the following. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U. S. 307, 319-320 (99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560) (1979). At trial, three females testified that Cline had fondled them. Two were the young victims of the convictions at issue. The third, a similar transaction witness, was Cline’s adult niece who testified that when she was between the ages of six and eight Cline fondled her breasts and made…