Oxendine v. State

HORSEY, Justice:

Defendant, Jeffrey Oxendine, Sr., appeals his conviction in trial by jury in Superior Court of manslaughter (11 Del.C. § 632(1)) 1 in the beating death of his six-year-old son, Jeffrey Oxendine, Jr. Oxen- dine was sentenced to twelve years’ imprisonment. 2 On appeal, Oxendine’s principal argument is that the Trial Court committed reversible error by denying his motion for a judgment of acquittal on the issue of causation. Specifically, he argues that the State’s medical testimony, relating to which of the codefendants’ admittedly repeated beatings of the child was the cause of…