State v. Bowling

OPINION

O’BRIEN, Judge.

Convicted of child abuse in violation of T.C.A. § 39-1019, in the Criminal Court for Hamblen County, defendant was sentenced to serve eleven months and twenty-nine days in the county jail and fined the sum of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000).

He appeals raising three issues which require a summary of the evidence heard at the trial.

Defendant was charged with inflicting injury upon a three-year-old male child by squeezing his penis causing it to become swollen, bruised, and to bleed. He was also charged with awakening the child in the middle of the night and making him stand…