Stokes v. State

Andrews, Judge.

A jury convicted Stokes of cruelty to children under an indictment charging that she forced her two-year-old child to sit in a tub of hot water thereby causing severe burns to the child’s body.

1. Stokes first claims that the trial court erred in admitting three photographs depicting second and third degree burns suffered by the child. Stokes argues the inflammatory nature of the photographs outweighed any probative value, and that one of the photographs was duplicative of another. The first photograph showed burns on the child’s foot and heel. The second was a close-up…