McIntosh v. State

OPINION

PARKS, Judge:

Robert Joseph McIntosh, appellant, was convicted of Child Beating (21 O.S.Supp. 1982, § 843) in Oklahoma County District Court Case No. CRF-88-1657. He received a sentence of seventy-two (72) years imprisonment in accordance with the jury’s recommendation. Appellant was tried jointly with Judy Carey, the mother of two (2) year old Phillip Carey. Each defendant was charged with child beating, or in the alternative, allowing child beating.

After an anonymous source reported the suspected abuse of young Phillip to child welfare authorities on March 21, 1988, Phillip was taken…