Little v. State

Appellant was convicted of aggravated assault, alleged to have been committed by striking and beating an eleven-months-old child with a large comb.

Cecil McAfee, the mother of the child, testified that she lived with her child at appellant’s home, and was employed by him as cook, and that one Sunday morning the child, at the breakfast table, turned over a cup of coffee, which burned appellant on the arm as it spilled out of the sup, and that in his anger appellant picked up the comb and struck'the child over the shoulder, hip and leg and on the side of its face, and that the prints of the…