Legal Opinion
Harmon v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided March 18, 1993No. A92A2311PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Birdsong, Presiding Judge.
James L. Harmon, Sr. appeals his convictions for aggravated cruelty to children and aggravated battery. He was sentenced to 20 years confinement with 18 years to serve on the aggravated battery count and 20 years probation on the cruelty to children count to run concurrently with the sentence on the aggravated battery count. The victim of both crimes was Harmon’s seven-month-old step-grandchild. According to the evidence presented, the infant received severe injuries that caused blindness, cerebral palsy, and mental retardation af ter she was “shaken” and her brain…
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