Brewton v. State

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

In Brewton v. State, 216 Ga. App. 346 (454 SE2d 558), we reversed appellant’s conviction of reckless conduct, arising from appellant’s chasing her son down the hall while swinging an axe-like maul (for purposes of breaking his toys) but affirmed her conviction of cruelty to children (arising from appellant’s malicious subjection of her children to living in an overall environment of unhealthy squalor). The Supreme Court granted certiorari, as to our affirmance of the cruelty to children conviction, and reversed our decision on that count in Brewton v. State, 266 Ga.…