A jury found Pernell Lee guilty of four counts of aggravated battery and one count of cruelty to children in the first degree.1 In his sole enumeration of error, Lee contends the evidence was insufficient to support the jury’s verdict. We find that the jury was authorized to reject Lee’s defense and to determine that Lee maliciously and intentionally immersed his girlfriend’s seventeen-month-old baby in hot water after she soiled her diaper. We affirm Lee’s conviction. On appeal from a criminal conviction, we view the evidence in the light most favorable to support the jury’s verdict, and the defendant no longer enjoys a presumption of innocence; moreover, this Court determines evidence sufficiency and does not weigh the evidence or determine witness credibility.2 “Resolving evidentiary conflicts and inconsistencies, and assessing witness credibility, are the province of the factfinder, not this Court.”3 A conviction based on circumstantial evidence is authorized only if the proven facts shall not only be consistent with the hypothesis of guilt, but shall exclude every other reasonable hypothesis save that of the guilt of the accused.4 Whether this burden has been met is a question for the jury.5 When the jury is authorized to find the evidence, although circumstantial, is sufficient to exclude every reasonable hypothesis except the defendant’s guilt, the verdict will not be disturbed unless the verdict is insupportable as a matter of law.6
Viewed in this light, the evidence shows that Lee’s girlfriend left her three children alone with Lee. The girlfriend received a phone call from Lee to come home immediately. When she did, she found her seventeen-month-old baby severely burned. She immediately took the baby to the hospital, where she was treated for first, second and third degree burns on her upper torso, chest, back, groin area and upper thigh. About twenty percent of her body had second degree burns. The injuries were too severe to be treated at the local hospital, so the baby was transferred to the burn unit at Grady Hospital. Treatment included a month in hospitals and skin grafts to her back, sides, groin area and stomach. The baby was left with permanent scarring.
