Dingle v. State

Appellant, Richard Dingle, was convicted and sentenced for first degree felony murder and aggravated child abuse after the retrial of this cause.1 He raises three issues on this appeal. We affirm.

Dingle was charged with both aggravated child abuse and the felony murder of his girlfriend’s eight-month-old infant who had been entrusted in his care by the baby’s mother while she went to the dentist. The baby’s mother testified essentially at Dingle’s first trial that the infant was healthy when she left the victim in Dingle’s care. After the first trial, but six months prior to the retrial of…