single verdict form was submitted to the jury without objection by the defendant. That verdict will operate on all charges or acts of the defendant against Louise Carli during the specified time period.
The defendant's complaints about the indictment are without merit.
 8 We turn next to the evidentiary questions. The first of these concerns the admission into evidence of two photographs taken of Mrs. Carli some two or three years prior to her death. These were compared with other photographs taken at the autopsy. The State's theory was to show the deterioration in her physical condition as well as showing the bruises and burns. At trial the defendant objected on the grounds of relevancy and the court reserved ruling until the defendant's witnesses had testified. After they hadCarli in August 1981 and March 1983. She stated that on the latter date Mrs. Carli's condition was pitiful, her eyes were swollen shut, large brown sores appeared on her body, her hair was long and dirty, and her dress had eggs and coffee down the front.
The defendant presented Mrs. Carli's grandson and was asked by defense counsel to compare her condition at the time she lived with the defendant with her condition when her husband was alive "and before." When the defendant took the stand in her own behalf, she testified about Mrs. Carli's condition when she first went to work for the Carlis in November 1981.
 9 This testimony by the defense witnesses raised the issue of Mrs. Carli's condition prior to her entrance into the