Appeal denied for dad who put 2-month-old baby in microwave

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Appeal denied for dad who put 2-month-old baby in microwave
April 16, 2010

GALVESTON, Texas — A state appeals court upheld the conviction Thursday of a man who stuffed his 2-month-old daughter in a microwave oven and caused second- and third-degree burns to her face, ear and hand.

A jury on March 26, 2008, convicted Joshua Royce Mauldin, 22, on a charge of injury to a child and sentenced him to 25 years in prison. He is eligible for parole in 2019.

Mauldin and his family drove from Arkansas in May 2007 and stayed at a Galveston motel, where he threw his daughter from one bed to another, shook and punched her, put her in a safe, refrigerator and finally in a microwave oven and turned it on for 10 seconds, testimony revealed.

A jury rejected Mauldin’s insanity defense in Judge Susan Criss’ 212th District Court in Galveston, but he appealed his case on two issues.

The 14th Court of Appeals rejected Mauldin’s claims the state elicited inadmissible and irrelevant testimony from a defense witness and that the trial court erred by allowing the state to make improper jury arguments without an instruction.