Opinion ID: 1649620
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 44

Heading: Jury Instruction on child abuse.

Text: ¶ 52. Brown claims that the jury improperly instructed the jury on child abuse on grounds that there was no act of abuse separate from the murder. On direct appeal, this Court specifically found that there was evidence of multiple wounds and abrasions to the body of Evangela Boyd other than the fatal chop wounds to the head. The Court further found One act alone may constitute abuse and/or battery; the statute does not require that the abuse be dispensed with over a period of time before a charge of felonious abuse will arise. Jackson, 672 So.2d at 482 (quoting Faraga v. State, 514 So.2d 295, 302 (Miss.1987)). 690 So.2d at 291. The issue is res judicata and barred from further review. Miss. Code Ann. § 99-39-21(2).