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Scott
v.
the State
A11A0065.
Court of Appeals of Georgia.
Oct 29, 2010.
Published opinion
702 S.E.2d 790
2010 Ga. App. LEXIS 1022
Sharon L. Hopkins, for appellant., Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, James M. McDaniel, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.
Adams, Barnes, Blackburn.
Published
BLACKBURN, Senior Appellate Judge.

Following a jury trial, Lee Dixon Scott appeals his conviction of rape, [1] raising as his only enumeration of error the sufficiency of the evidence. The child victim, who was under ten years old, testified at trial that Scott (her father) placed his private inside her private when they were in the bathroom. It is well established that in rape cases, the victim’s testimony alone is sufficient to support a conviction. Johnson v. State. 2 See Newton v. State. 3 Scott’s argument that the victim’s testimony was not credible does not apply in the appellate context, as “[determining the credibility of witnesses is entirely within the province of the jury.” (Punctuation omitted.) McKinney v. State. 4 The evidence sufficed to sustain the convictions.

Judgment affirmed.

Barnes, P J., and Adams, J., concur.
2

Johnson v. State, 280 Ga. App. 341, 342-343 (2) (634 SE2d 134) (2006).

3

Newton v. State, 296 Ga. App. 332, 336 (1) (b) (674 SE2d 379) (2009).

4

McKinney v. State, 269 Ga. App. 12, 16 (2) (602 SE2d 904) (2004).