Keith v. State

Beasley, Chief Judge.

Keith was convicted by a jury of two counts of cruelty to children, OCGA § 16-5-70 (b). Specifically, the jury found, as alleged, that he had maliciously caused cruel and excessive physical pain to the same male child on November 21, 1993, when he struck the then *904nine-year-old child in the face with a plastic cord, and on May 4, 1994, when Keith struck the child, then age ten, with a hot iron. The iron left a first-degree burn on the child’s right rib cage area, which the physician who examined the child testified would be “very painful.” These incidents occurred during a…