Levi v. State

*747OPINION

By the Court,

Thompson, J.:

A jury convicted Levi of child abuse resulting in substantial bodily harm.1 The legislature has defined substantial bodily harm for the purposes of criminal penalty as meaning (1) bodily injury which creates a substantial risk of death, or which causes serious, permanent disfigurement or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ, or (2) prolonged physical pain. NRS 193.015.

In this case evidence was received from which the jury properly could conclude that Levi willfully held his eight-year-old son over burning papers causing…