Ferguson v. State

1 ¶ Appellant Jacqueline Ferguson was convicted by a jury in the Lonoke County Circuit Court of second-degree domestic battering for physically abusing her child, LF, who was four years old at the time of the incident. Appellant argues on appeal that the circuit court abused its discretion, first, for denying her motion to recuse from the case and, second, for refusing to accept her waiver of a jury trial. Because we hold that the circuit court-did not abuse its. discretion in either ruling, we affirm appellant’s conviction.

The issues before us in this case arose out of a dependency-neglect…