Wilson v. State

Barnes, Judge.

Rebecca Denise Wilson was charged with two counts of cruelty to children, one for causing pain to her three-month-old child, M. W, from a severe diaper rash, and one for wilfully depriving M. W. of necessary sustenance to the extent that the child’s well-being was jeopardized. A jury acquitted her of the first count and convicted her of the second. The trial court sentenced Wilson to serve 11 years, and she appeals, contending that the court erred (1) in denying her motion for directed verdict; (2) in refusing to give her requests to charge on bare suspicion, raising a child in…