State v. Keester

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The defendant was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree for having caused the death of a young woman, Lorean Franklin, by divers means which he feloniously used upon her to destroy an unborn quick child with which she was pregnant.

Defendant assigns various trial errors, the most serious of which relates to the fact that while he was charged with an offense which by statute is defined as manslaughter in the second degree and which carries a punishment of penal servitude for a term of three to five years, he was convicted of the…