State v. Jones

OPINION

FRANK F. DROWOTA, III, C.J. and JANICE M. HOLDER, WILLIAM M. BARKER, JJ., and J.S. DANIEL, SP.J., joined.

We granted this appeal to determine whether the evidence supported the defendant’s conviction for criminally negligent homicide in the death of her two-year-old son. The child was riding on the defendant’s lap in the front passenger seat of a rental car and was killed when the passenger-side air bag deployed in a collision. The Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the conviction, concluding that the evidence was sufficient to sustain the jury’s verdict, that the defendant’s conduct was…