Beggs v. State

OPINION

ROBERTS, Judge.

This appeal presents some questions about the defense of mistake of fact in a prosecution for injury to a child. The appellant and her step-daughter were charged with burning the appellant’s granddaughter RMB in hot bathwater. The appellant was tried separately from her step-daughter. The appellant admitted helping her stepdaughter punish RMB by administering the bath which scalded RMB. Her defense was that she did not know that the bathwater was hot enough to cause injury, the water having been drawn by her step-daughter before the appellant came into the bathroom to…