State v. Addison

BARRY, Judge.

Defendant pled guilty to manslaughter, La.R.S. 14:31, and five months later filed a motion to withdraw the plea. After a hearing the motion was denied and he was sentenced to ten years at hard labor. He assigns as error the denial of the motion.

Kevin Collins, a 16 month old child abuse victim, had trouble breathing and the defendant called an ambulance which took the baby to Charity Hospital where he died. The autopsy reported a lacerated liver, bruises on the face, head, back, buttocks, and broken ribs. Obviously the child was severely beaten. Defendant admitted that he…