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Final Copy 286 Ga. 721 S10A0245. KING v. THE STATE. Melton, Justice. Following a jury trial, Mary Jane King was convicted of felony murder and cruelty to children.1 On appeal, King alleges for the first time that she was denied a fair and impartial jury. Because King never raised this issue in the trial court, we affirm. The record reveals that, on January 24, 2006, King beat her adopted son to death with a piece of PVC pipe and injured her foster daughter. While the court was conducting a Jackson-Denno hearing, a juror, Jackie Medders, approached a GBI Agent, Agent Bloodworth, during a lunch recess and asked if King had "pled guilty." Agent Bloodworth informed her that King had not

On February 8, 2006, King was indicted for two counts of felony murder (with cruelty to children and aggravated assault as the underlying felonies) and one count of first degree cruelty to children. Following an October 302 Ga. App.

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