Opinion ID: 1936097
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 14

Heading: whether the trial court's instruction to the jury on the crime of felonious child abuse is vague, overly broad and insufficient to support the jury's verdict

Text: Jackson variously contends that the felonious child abuse statute is void for vagueness under the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendments, the instructions given to the jury did not sufficiently narrow the definition of child abuse and the State exploited these constitutional infirmities in closing argument. He made no objections at trial either to the alleged vagaries of the statute or to the State's comments in closing arguments. Further, he provides no apparent argument for his contention that the language serious bodily harm as used in both the statute and the instruction is very broad. Accordingly, this issue is procedurally barred. Russell v. State, 607 So.2d 1107, 1117 (Miss. 1992); Hansen v. State, 592 So.2d 114, 115 (Miss. 1991).