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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE
AT NASHVILLE
Assigned on Briefs August 13, 2003

STATE OF TENNESSEE v. MITCHELL WAYNE HILES
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Montgomery County
No. 40100514 Michael R. Jones, Judge

No. M2002-02973-CCA-R3-CD - Filed November 13, 2003
The Appellant, Mitchell Wayne Hiles, was convicted of one count of aggravated sexual battery, a class B felony, following a jury trial.  The trial court sentenced Hiles to an eight-year sentence in the Department of Correction.  On appeal, Hiles raises the single issue of whether the evidence was sufficient to support the verdict. After review of the record, we affirm the conviction.

Tenn. R. App. P. 3; Judgment of the Circuit Court Affirmed.
DAVID G. HAYES, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which GARY R. WADE, P.J., and JERRY
L. SMITH, J., joined.
Roger Eric Nell, District Public Defender; Russel A. Church, Assistant Public Defender, Clarksville, Tennessee, for the Appellant, Mitchell Wayne Hiles.
Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; Michael Moore, Solicitor General; Kathy D. Aslinger, Assistant Attorney General; John Wesley Carney, Jr., District Attorney General; and Arthur F. Bieber, Assistant District Attorney General, for the Appellee, State of Tennessee.
OPINION

Factual Background
On March 17, 2001, the Appellant was taking care of the victim, nine-year-old A.H.,1 and her brother since their mother was not at home.  The Appellant was the boyfriend of the children

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