Simmons v. State

RUFFIN, Presiding Judge.

A Dougherty County jury found Larry Simmons guilty of two counts of child molestation. Simmons appeals, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence and arguing that the trial court erred in admitting certain testimony under OCGA § 24-3-16, Georgia’s Child Hearsay Statute. For reasons that follow, we affirm.

Viewed in a light favorable to the jury’s verdict, 1 the evidence shows that in 2002 Simmons lived with his girlfriend, Lisa Hamilton, and her four children. In May 2002, one of Hamilton’s daughters, L. S., who was ten years old, told her mother that Simmons was…