Grubbs v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendant Walter L. Grubbs and his wife were indicted and tried for cruelty to children in that they maliciously caused their son, Deldrick Brown, cruel and excessive pain by striking and beating him. The evidence adduced at trial showed that the wife brought the child, who was twenty months old, into the hospital on December 18, 1981, in a very comatose condition. He had suffered a severe blow to the head that caused substantial, and likely permanent, brain damage. In addition to the head injury, the child had a multitude of bruises and scratches on his face,…