State v. Adams

OPINION

in which ANDERSON, C.J., and DROWOTA, BIRCH, and HOLDER, JJ„ joined.

We granted this appeal to decide whether a jury must unanimously agree as to the particular serious bodily injury used to support a conviction for aggravated child abuse through neglect. The trial court held that aggravated child abuse through neglect is a single, continuing course of conduct, and that the State was not required, therefore, to make an election of offenses. On direct appeal, the Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the appellants’ conviction and sentence for aggravated child abuse through neglect, and the…