Hood v. State

MlKELL, Judge.

A jury convicted Jerry Lee Hood of cruelty to children, OCGA § 16-5-70 (b), and aggravated battery, OCGA § 16-5-24, for shaking his one-month-old daughter so violently that serious brain injury resulted. The two offenses merged, and the trial court sentenced Hood to twenty years confinement. After the denial of his motion for a new trial, Hood filed the present appeal, in which he challenges the sufficiency of the evidence and argues that the trial court erred in denying his motion for a mistrial and in excluding certain hearsay evidence. We affirm.

On appeal from a criminal…