Was He Insane?

A jury will resume deliberations Tuesday on whether Joshua Royce Mauldin was insane when he placed his infant daughter in a microwave oven.

The eight-woman, four-man jury deliberated for 3½ hours Monday after hearing closing arguments. Mauldin is accused of placing his daughter in the oven in what the defense says was a fit of insanity.

The prosecution told jurors that Mauldin put his daughter in the microwave because the infant was the only thing connecting him to a wife he wanted to leave.