Lewis v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendants, husband and wife, were indicted for cruelty to children. At trial, the evidence revealed the following:

During the morning of February 9, 1986, defendants’ neighbor, Mrs. Robin Smith, heard defendants’ 32-day-old infant crying. Mrs. Smith went to church that morning and when she returned, “the baby was still crying.” Mrs. Smith contacted defendant wife via telephone and inquired, “ ‘How’s the baby’s leg?’ ” Defendant wife inquired of Mrs. Smith as to how she knew about it. Mrs. Smith informed defendant wife that her “daughter’s girlfriend told [her] about…