Shadron v. State

Benham, Justice.

This is an appeal from Gary Layton Shadron’s conviction for felony murder. In August 1998, Shadron was living with Mindy Hunt and her six-month-old son Kendall. Because of previous incidents in which Shadron bruised Kendall by hitting his stomach, held his hand over the child’s mouth and nose for crying, threw Kendall at Mindy, allowed Kendall’s face to go under water in his bath, and burned him with a cigarette, the family was under the supervision of the Department of Family & Children Services, and Shadron had been prohibited by court order from unsupervised contact with…