Silcox v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

A Murray County jury convicted defendant of two counts of child molestation.* 1 The trial court denied his motion for new trial, as amended. He now appeals, contending he received ineffective assistance of counsel for counsel’s failure to: (a) prepare for trial by inves tigating the crime scene and interviewing witnesses whose names had been furnished by defendant and his wife, (b) introduce evidence of a negative rape kit test, (c) object to the testimony of the State’s witnesses as to what they had been told by the victim, and (d) call witnesses other than the…