Graves v. State

Ruffin, Chief Judge.

A jury found Daniale Graves guilty of cruelty to children for failing to seek medical care for her eight-month-old daughter, who died as a result of blunt force trauma to the head, chest, and abdomen. On appeal, Graves challenges the sufficiency of the evidence. She also claims that she received ineffective assistance of counsel. For reasons that follow, we affirm.

1. On appeal from a criminal conviction, we construe the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict, and Graves no longer enjoys a presumption of innocence.1 We neither weigh the evidence nor assess the…