The Capital Murder trial of Robert Babcock is scheduled to begin next week in Memphis with jury selection beginning on Wednesday, May 30.
District Attorney Luke Inman’s office said the state is not seeking the death penalty in the case. The maximum punishment range will be life in prison without parole.
The case is expected to last several days, and the court has calendared the trial until June 8.
Babcock is accused of beating his four-year-old son, Chance Mark Jones, who died on January 5, 2011.
In related news, Donley County Sheriff Butch Blackburn said Babcock’s mother, Gayle Edes, was briefly jailed again Monday morning, May 21, by the order of District Judge Stuart Messer after she failed to appear for a docket call of the district court in Clarendon. She was released shortly afterward, also on the judge’s order.
Edes is also facing a first degree felony charge of Injury to a Child by Omission because the state alleges that she, by omission, caused serious bodily injury to Jones by her failure to get medical attention for the boy.
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