Jones v. State

OPINION

SHARPNACK, Judge.

Linda Jones appeals her conviction for battery as class D felony. 1 Jones raises two issues, which we revise and restate as follows:

I. Whether the trial court abused its discretion by admitting the victim's statements to a police officer under the excited utterance exception to the hearsay rule and to his mother under the present sense impression exception to the hearsay rule; and

II. Whether Ind.Code § 385-37-4-6 (1998) is applicable.

We affirm.

The relevant facts follow. On December 1, 2001, Jones babysat all four of Jennifer Johnson's children at Jones's home on Avenue…