Smith v. State

Quillian, Presiding Judge.

Defendant appeals her conviction for cruelty to a child.

The case arose in March 1979 when the mother of a three-and-a-half-year-old boy picked him up from defendant’s home, where he had been kept by defendant as a daily babysitter for nearly two months, and the mother noticed that the boy’s face was bruised. The mother testified that defendant said her own two-year-old son had hit the boy and that he had fallen a couple of times; that as she drove off with her son the boy said defendant had hit him and indicated his face; and that admitted photographs of the boy’s…