cause, at the very least, the impairment of physical condition or a visible mark associated with the physical trauma. See LaFort v. State, 98 Ark.App. 202, 205, 254 S.W.3d 27, 29-30 (2007). Accordingly, sufficient evidence supports appellant's convictions, and the trial court did not err in refusing to direct the verdicts.
Nor did the court err in refusing appellant's request for a continuance to obtain new counsel. In his first point of error, appellant claims that he was denied his counsel of choice. The information against appellant was filed on March 16, 2007. On April 25, 2007, the trial court scheduled a jury trial for September 5, 2007. On August 29, 2007, appellant moved for a continuance without objection, resulting in the resetting of the trial for January 29,2008. On the day of trial, appellant asked the trial court to grant *683 him a continuance so that he could hire new trial counsel. Counsel told the court that appellant had not hired new counsel. When asked why he needed new counsel, appellant explained that he had not been provided with an expert witness to testify about the victim's medical condition, as promised by his attorney. He added that his attorney had "intended on using the witnesses by the prosecution upon cross examination[,]" but that, at the last minute, the prosecution had decided not to subpoena the doctors who had written the victim's medical records. He added that he was "kind of left high and dry" without his own expert. After noting that appellant's case was a