Howard Lawon Williams, convicted by a jury of four counts of child molestation,1 appeals from the trial court’s denial of his motion for new trial, claiming that the evidence was legally insufficient, errors were made in admission of evidence, and his counsel rendered ineffective assistance. Finding no error, we affirm. 1. On appeal from a criminal conviction, the evidence is construed in a light most favorable to the verdict, and Williams no longer enjoys a presumption of innocence. This Court determines only the legal sufficiency of the evidence presented below and does not weigh evidence or assess credibility of the witnesses. As long as there is some evidence, even though contradicted, to support each necessary element of the State’s case, the verdict will be upheld. Moore v. State , 254 Ga. App. 134 561 SE2d 454 2002.
So viewed, the evidence was that in 2000, L. V., then a 13-year-old seventh grader, reported to her teacher that she had been molested, resulting in an investigation. Investigator Beecher interviewed L. V. who told him that she had gone to her friend Z. M.’s house twice to spend the night and that, on both occasions, a man called “Baldy” Williams was there. Williams was Z. M.’s stepfather, having married Georgia Matthews, her mother. L. V. also knew Matthews because she was her stepsister. L. V. said Z. M. told her, on her first visit, that she and Baldy had been “messing around.” Z. M., also 13, demonstrated how she would dance in front of Baldy, “popping” or placing her hands on her knees and moving her backside in front of him. Later that night, Williams put a “nasty movie” on the VCR and made L. V., Z. M., and S. W., another friend two years younger, watch. L. V. described the movie as one involving men and women doing stuff, and the woman would “suck his thing or whatever.”
