Hoodenpyle v. State

DAVID M. GLOVER, Judge.

|, Jesse Hoodenpyle was convicted by a jury of first-degree battery for “knowingly, without legal justification, causing] serious physical injury to a person he or she knows to be twelve (12) years of age or younger,” ArkCode Ann. § 5-13-201(a)(7) (Supp.2011). The victim was his two-month-old daughter, Taylor. He was sentenced to five years in the Arkansas Department of Correction. On appeal, Hoo-denpyle argues that the trial court erred (1) in denying his motion for directed verdict because the State failed to prove that he knowingly caused physical injury to Taylor;…