Harrison v. State

Violation of Alabama Child Abuse Act; sentence: seven years imprisonment.

The State's evidence was sufficient to support a finding that during the mid-morning hours of November 27, 1978, the appellant, under the pretense of bathing two-year-old Kristy Lynn Reaves, abused her by placing her in scalding water. The child suffered second degree and possibly third degree burns on her feet, legs, and buttocks. She was treated at a local hospital in Anniston for about forty-eight hours and then transferred to the Shrine Burn Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, for further treatment.

The child's mother,…