The Supreme Court of Georgia unanimously upheld Tuesday a Gainesville man’s convictions of malice murder and other crimes for beating to death his girlfriend’s 18-month-old daughter and physically abusing her other two children. Stephen Clark West was sentenced to life without parole in August 2012 for the murder of Kaylee Kipp. He was also convicted of aggravated assault and cruelty to children for killing the daughter of Deanna Renee Kipp and for severely abusing Kipp’s 7-year-old and 4-year-old daughters.