AUSTIN v. STATE

No. A00A2073.

540 S.E.2d 710 (2000)

246 Ga. App. 610

AUSTIN v. The STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

November 1, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gloria J. Hawkins, Atlanta, for appellant.

Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, Adrian Britt, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.


BARNES, Judge.

Hughdonn Austin appeals his conviction of cruelty to a child, alleging that the admission of evidence regarding a similar transaction of which he had been previously acquitted constitutes reversible error. He also argues that the trial court erred in failing, sua sponte, to give a charge on accident. Finding no error, we affirm.

Construed to support the verdict, the evidence showed that Austin's son came to day care on March 3, 1999, with a...

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