K.M.P. v. State

OPINION

FENDER, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from the discretionary transfer of a juvenile, K.M.P., appellant, to criminal court.

The appellant, age 15, and her husband, age 19, were married and living with their four-day-old child on January 8, 1985. On this day, appellant, who had apparently been at home alone with the baby, told a neighbor that she had dropped the baby on the kitchen floor and the neighbor called an ambulance. The baby died early the next morning at the hospital.

The cause of death was due to head injuries. The doctor testified that the fractures were so numerous that they…