Freeman v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Andrews, Presiding Judge.
Cornelius Detron Freeman, convicted by a jury of aggravated sodomy and enticing a child for indecent purposes, 1 appeals from the trial court’s denial of his motion for new trial, alleging that his trial counsel and his initial appellate counsel rendered ineffective assistance and that the trial court erred in not holding a competency hearing.
1. Viewed with all inferences in favor of the jury’s verdict, Eady v. State, 256 Ga. App. 696 (569 SE2d 603) (2002), the evidence was that Freeman was the brother of Gwendolyn Thomas and the uncle of six-year-old K. F. On October…
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