State v. White

McQUADE, Justice.

On the afternoon of Feburary 18, 1967, Janet White, defendant below, was changing her second child, a three month old infant. As she afterwards told the doctor at the hospital emergency room where the baby was taken, the baby was screaming, “my mind snapped, and I threw her on the floor.” Mrs. White then picked the baby up and put it in the crib. An hour later, the baby died from what was later determined to be a large skull fracture on the left side of the head, causing massive blood clot pressure on the brain and the cessation of the life functions. Janet White was charged…