Adams v. State

JOHNSON, Presiding Judge.

A jury found Tavins Lee Adams guilty of child molestation, aggravated child molestation, aggravated sodomy, and enticing a child for indecent purposes. Prior to sentencing, the trial court merged the conviction for aggravated child molestation into the conviction for aggravated sodomy, and it sentenced Adams to twenty years in prison for each of the remaining three counts, for a total sentence of sixty years.

Adams filed a motion for new trial, which the trial court granted in part by merging Adams’ conviction for child molestation into his conviction for aggravated…