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admit ownership of the drugs in question. Beecher v. State, 240 Ga.App. 457, 523 S.E.2d 54 (September 29, 1999). Defendant’s conviction for arson affirmed; no ineffective assistance where defense counsel elected not to call alleged exculpatory witness. “[A]lthough Beecher submitted an unsworn, post-trial statement of this witness, implicating the victim in the fire, Beecher's trial counsel testified that she spoke with the witness before trial and his testimony at trial would have differed from the recitations made in the statement. Under these circumstances, we find no merit in Beecher's claim that his trial counsel was ineffective, for this claim is ‘grounded in matters of trial tactics and strategy and [does] not provide a basis for finding counsel lacking.’ (Citation and punctuation omitted.) Rutledge v. State, 237 Ga.App. 390, 392(2), 515 S.E.2d 1 (1999). Tactical or strategic decisions such as the failure to call certain witnesses ‘do not equate with ineffective assistance of counsel.’ (Citation and punctuation omitted.) Id.” Accord, Holmes v. State, 272 Ga. 517, 529 S.E.2d 879 (May 8, 2000) (“Trial counsel's decision not to call certain witnesses to testify at trial is a matter of trial tactics and strategy and whether such tactics are reasonable is a question of law.”). Jones v. State, 239 Ga.App. 614, 521 S.E.2d 614 (August 10, 1999). No ineffective assistance where counsel elected not to present testimony of defendant’s brother, claiming ownership of the drugs, after brother had previously testified that he was unaware of the drugs. “Trial counsel testified that, based on the words [brother] Johnny Jones used and Johnny Jones' tone of voice and demeanor, he felt the testimony would be perjury.” “Ineffective assistance of counsel does not result from the refusal of counsel to use possibly perjured testimony. Stephenson v. State, 206 Ga.App. 273, 424 S.E.2d 816 (1992); see also Nix v. Whiteside, 475 U.S. 157, 106 S.Ct. 988, 89 L.Ed.2d 123 (1986); Harris v. New York, 401 U.S. 222, 225, 91 S.Ct. 643, 28 L.Ed.2d 1 (1971); York v. State, 207 Ga.App. 494, 428 S.E.2d 113 (1993).” Accord, Boykins-White v. State , 305 Ga.App. 827, 701 S.E.2d 221 (September 7, 2010). McGhee v. State, 237 Ga.App. 541, 515 S.E.2d 656 (April 7, 1999). No ineffective assistance where counsel declined to present alibi witnesses who were “quite emphatic that [they did not] know [defendant’s] whereabouts” at the time of the robbery. “‘The determination as to which defense witnesses will be called is a matter of trial strategy and tactics. Trial strategy and tactics do not equate with ineffective assistance of counsel. Effectiveness is not judged by hindsight or by the result.’ (Citations and punctuation omitted.) Etheridge v. State, 210 Ga.App. 96, 98, 435 S.E.2d 292 (1993).” Accord, Hope v. State , 239 Ga.App. 331, 521 S.E.2d 372 (July 27, 1999) (counsel concluded that proposed witnesses “had no information that would be beneficial to Hope”); Billups v. State , 272 Ga. 15, 523 S.E.2d 873 (November 15, 1999) (counsel deemed alibi witnesses to be ‘unreliable and incredible’); Nelson v. State , 242 Ga.App. 63, 528 S.E.2d 844 (January 25, 2000) (“Counsel explained that he elected not to call Nelson's wife as an alibi witness because he did not want to ‘put a reluctant witness up here to possibly perjure themself [sic].’”); Freeman v. State , 284 Ga. 830, 672 S.E.2d 644 (January 26, 2009); Espinosa v. State , 309 Ga.App. 877, 711 S.E.2d 425 (June 14, 2011) (witness’s proposed testimony could be impeached by his testimony at his own prior plea hearing); Rudolph v. State , 313 Ga.App. 411, 721 S.E.2d 625 (December 19, 2011) (Counsel feared that inconsistencies in the stories of defendant’s two sons would have damaged counsel’s credibility with the jury); Green v. State , 291 Ga. 287, 728 S.E.2d 668 (June 25, 2012) (not ineffective in failing to present alibi witnesses who “were either unable to support an alibi defense or could not be located.”); Cartwright v. State , 291 Ga. 498, 731 S.E.2d 353 (September 10, 2012); Andrews v. State , 293 Ga. 701, 749 S.E.2d 734 (October 7, 2013) (counsel declined to present alibi witness who “had given several conflicting statements to police, and … phone records revealed that [witness] may not have been telling the truth about alleged calls that she said she had made to Andrews on the night of the murder.”); Mathis v. State , 328 Ga.App. 292, 761 S.E.2d 836 (July 15, 2014) (counsel’s performance wasn’t deficient where “he did not call [defendant’s sister and fiancé] as [alibi] witnesses because he believed that their testimony was not valuable (regarding the time of evening) or was not credible.”); Jones v. State , 296 Ga. 561, 769 S.E.2d 307 (February 16, 2015); Moss v. State , 298 Ga. 613, 783 S.E.2d 652 (March 7, 2016) (not ineffective for declining to present defendant’s boss as an alibi witness, who “said that Appellant did deliveries as part of his job and at one point said that Appellant left work early on the night of the shooting to make a delivery on his way home, which was near where the shooting happened and would have fit the prosecution’s timeline for the murder.”); Bryant v. State , S15A1738, ___ Ga. ___, ___ S.E.2d ___, 2016 WL 1085388 (March 21, 2016) (“It was not unreasonable for trial counsel to make a strategic decision declining to put forward an uncooperative alibi witness or an alibi witness who would have provided conflicting testimony.”). 112. WITNESSES, SEQUESTRATION Trammell v. State, 328 Ga.App. 45, 761 S.E.2d 470 (July 9, 2014). Aggravated assault convictions affirmed; no ineffective assistance based on failure to invoke rule of sequestration until second day of trial. “Prior to counsel's invocation of the rule, Jackson, Marsh, Howard, and a police officer testified, and trial counsel cross-examined each of