State v. Williams

OPINION

LANSING, Judge.

Appellant Keith Williams challenges his felony and gross misdemeanor convictions of malicious punishment of a child, Minn. Stat. § 609.377 (1986). We do not agree that the statute as applied is unconstitutional or that the evidentiary rulings are incorrect. Because the evidence is sufficient to support the two convictions, we affirm.

FACTS

A Hennepin County jury found Keith Williams guilty of malicious punishment causing substantial bodily harm to an eight-year-old child (felony) and causing substantial emotional harm to a six-year-old child (gross misdemeanor). The mother…