FRANKLIN v. the STATE.

McFadden, Chief Judge.

After a jury trial, Diana Franklin was convicted of nineteen counts of cruelty to children in the first degree, eight counts of false imprisonment, and one count of aggravated assault for acts against her teenaged daughter, A. F. On appeal, she argues that the trial court erred in failing to merge several of the convictions for sentencing; we disagree, except as to her eight false-imprisonment convictions, which the state has conceded should merge into her child-cruelty convictions. She argues that the trial court erred in failing, sua sponte, to order a mistrial after…