Bates v. State

11Appellant George Bates appeals his conviction by the Circuit Court of Poinsett County of domestic battering in the third degree. We affirm.

At the bench trial, the victim, Karen Goans, testified that she had lived with Bates for eleven years prior to an incident in January 2016 that resulted in her hospitalization. However, she denied that the hospitalization was due to injuries inflicted by Bates, stating instead that she had “messed up on [her] pills” and awakened in the hospital. She denied having suffered any head trauma but admitted that she had “a hole in [her] lung.” She testified…