Waites v. State

Jordan, Justice.

The indictment against Charlie Glenn Waites charged him in the first count with the murder of John Robert Dobbs, and in the second count with cruelty to the same child by burning him with a curling iron. He was convicted of both offenses, and consecutive sentences of life imprisonment and five years were imposed. He appeals these convictions.

1. The appellant enumerates as error the denial of the general grounds of his motion for new trial.

The deceased child, whose age was between two and three years, was the stepson of the appellant. Under the medical testimony, the child’s…