Williams v. State

SHIELDS, Presiding Judge.

Donna Williams appeals her conviction of battery, a class D felony.1

We affirm.

FACTS

T.P., Williams’s six-year-old daughter, received burns on her hands in late Novem*760ber or.early December of 1985. She told several people that her mother had burned her with a cigarette to punish her. Williams was charged with battery, a class D felony. On February 4, 1986, a pre-trial hearing was held on the State’s petition pursuant to I.C. 35-37-4 6 (Burns Supp. 1988) to introduce T.P.’s out-of-court statements and to determine T.P.’s competency as a witness. The trial court held the…