A Donley County Grand Jury indicted Robert Monroe Babcock yesterday on the Capital Murder charge in the death of his four-year-old son, Chance Mark Jones.
District Attorney Luke Inman tells the Enterprise that the court will now proceed with scheduling the first court appearance and setting a pre-trial date, which he says could be in the next two to four weeks.
Babcock is accused of beating his son, who died on January 5. According to previous reports, preliminary results of an autopsy conducted the next day revealed that the boy died from blunt force trauma to the head and that he also suffered internal injuries from trauma to the torso.
The defendant remains in the Donley County Jail with bond set at $1.1 million.
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