Newman v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Pickering, C.J.:

Appellant Shawn Newman appeals his conviction, on jury verdict, of one count of willfully endangering a child as a result of child abuse, a gross misdemeanor, and one count of battery by strangulation, a felony. The charges grew out of an incident in which Newman yelled at his son, Darian, in public; when Newman took off his belt to strike the boy, a witness, Thomas Car-mona, tried but failed to stop him. Newman and Carmona fought until Newman grabbed Carmona’s neck to choke him into submission. At trial, Newman admitted these facts and that he acted…