State v. Hoffman

The defendant, Bonnie Lee Hoffman, was charged with negligent homicide under section 45-5-104, MCA, based on her failure to provide medical attention for her three-year-old son. She was convicted after a jury trial in the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District, Missoula County, and received a ten-year suspended sentence.

Bonnie Lee Hoffman met Kinley Dobson in 1974 when they were both living in Cut Bank, Montana. The defendant was sixteen at the time; Dobson was twenty-four and married. The defendant became pregnant by Dobson, and on February 16, 1975, their son, Chad, was born. Dobson…