Cage v. State

Blackburn, Chief Judge.

Following a jury trial, Ashante R. Cage appeals his conviction of two counts of cruelty to children in the second degree. Cage’s sole enumeration of error is that his convictions cannot stand because he was not convicted of Count 1: cruelty to children in the first degree, which was based on the same incident as the second degree cruelty counts. Finding no error, we affirm.

On appeal from a criminal conviction, the evidence must be viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, and the defendant no longer enjoys the presumption of innocence; moreover, an appellate…