Mashburn v. State

Ruffin, Judge.

A jury found Ricky Lee Mashburn guilty of aggravated battery and cruelty to children. On appeal, Mashburn contends that the evidence was insufficient to support the aggravated battery conviction. He also asserts that the trial court erred in admitting certain evidence and in failing to merge the aggravated battery and cruelty to children convictions for sentencing purposes. For reasons that follow, we affirm.

The record demonstrates that in March 1998, Mashburn and his two children, Nicholas and Mariah, lived with Virginia Woolums and her daughter, Jennifer, in a trailer in…