help her breathe. Addryana was eventually taken by an ambulance to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead. An autopsy revealed that Addryana had died from a subdural hematoma, or what is commonly known as "shaken baby syndrome." Dant was arrested on January 24, 2005, and indicted by a Hancock County Grand Jury on February 7, 2005 for the murder of Addryana *15 Johnson. After a jury trial resulted in Dant being found guilty of wanton murder, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
On appeal, Dant contends that the trial court erred by (1) allowing inadmissible hearsay statements and evidence of his prior bad acts to be introduced through the testimonies of LeDeanna Taylor, Cindy Goatee, Hannah Warner Hall, and Kim Stearsman; (2) permitting the Commonwealth to admit gruesome,Katilyn was born, at which point April began seeing Trey Clarke, who was Addryana's father), Dant, April, and Katilyn had been living together since before Addryana was born and continued to live together after her birth. According to Dant's statement, on the morning of January 23, 2005, he woke up and heard Addryana gasping for breath. Addryana had been sick several days previously with a high temperature. According to the statement he gave to the police, Dant took Addryana into the living room and gave her some cough medicine with a decongestant to help her breathing. He also ran a bath for her. When it appeared that Addryana had stopped breathing, Dant stated that he shook her a little to help her breathe. When this did not help,