People v. Eaton

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Tompkins County convicting defendant of manslaughter in the second degree, causing the death of his five-month-old daughter; the indictment charging manslaughter in the first degree in that defendant “without a design to effect death, in the heat of passion, struck Terry Ann Eaton, his daughter, by means of a dangerous weapon, to wit, his hand, and struck her head against a water faucet”, causing her death eight days later. We need not, in view of the reversal hereinafter directed on other grounds, determine whether objections to the indictment…