Treadaway v. State

Benham, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of two counts of aggravated sodomy against his pre-teenaged stepdaughter. He appeals from the denial of his motion for new trial, raising three enumerations of error. We affirm.

1. Appellant complains that his character was impermissibly placed in issue when evidence was introduced at trial that he physically abused the victim’s brother and her mother. The testimony about which he complains was that appellant had beaten his wife, fractured three of her ribs, blackened both of her eyes, and pulled a gun on her, and that such treatment was one of her reasons…