Vance v. State

Sears-Collins, Justice.

Randy Edward Vance was convicted by a jury of one count of malice murder and one count of cruelty to children following the death of his girl friend’s 21-month-old son. The child died as the result of loss of blood from an internal organ ruptured by blunt trauma to the abdomen. Numerous other injuries were found on the child’s body, including hemorrhaging inside his skull and around his brain, bruises on his arms and torso, and a tear in his anus consistent with the forceful insertion of a large foreign object.

Vance appeals his conviction and the sentences of life…