Roseberry v. State

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The trial court charged the jury as follows: “Now, gentlemen, of the jury, the State brings this case and contends that the following section of the Code of Georgia has been violated by this defendant which provides as follows: Whoever shall torture, torment, deprive of necessary sustenance, mutilate, or cruelly, unreasonably and maliciously beat or ill-treat any child, or cause any of such acts to be done, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction of a person of violating that provision of our law, gentlemen, he or she would be punished with a…