Matthew Dotson will spend the rest of his life in jail. A jury deliberated about an hour Friday evening before finding the 33-year-old Roane County man guilty of first-degree murder in the starvation death of his two-year-old son in 2012. And Saturday, Dotson was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

According to 9th Judicial District Attorney General Russell Johnson, Dotson’s mother fell to the floor in what was believed to be a seizure as the verdict was read.

An ambulance was summoned and the sentencing hearing was rescheduled for Saturday afternoon.

An autopsy showed little Clifford Dotson, who died of malnutrition, weighed only 12 pounds when he died. He had spent most of his life in a car seat and was said to have been fed only once a day.

Dotson’s estranged wife, Amanda Dotson, pleaded guilty in September to facilitation of murder and is serving a 40-year prison term.