Brewton v. State

Benham, Chief Justice.

In the course of a domestic disturbance, Brewton’s 11-year-old son told a passerby that his mother was chasing him with an ax. Brewton was arrested and charged with aggravated assault. Based on unsanitary conditions in her home observed during execution of a search warrant, Brewton was also charged with two counts of cruelty to children, one relating to each of her two children. A jury trial resulted in Brewton’s conviction for reckless conduct as an included offense of aggravated assault and for one of the two counts of cruelty to a child. The Court of Appeals reversed…