Harris v. State

REESE, Judge.

A jury found George Harris guilty of six counts of child molestation,1 and the trial court sentenced him to forty years of imprisonment, to serve thirty. Harris appeals from the denial of his motion for new trial, contesting the admission of similar transaction testimony, the sufficiency of the evidence, and the failure to merge his convictions for sentencing. For the reasons set forth infra, we affirm.

Viewed in the light most favorable to the jury’s verdict,2 the evidence shows that the victims, who were ten and eleven years old at the time of trial, were the granddaughters of a…