State v. Higginbotham

HARRIS, Justice.

This direct appeal from sentence following a guilty plea to second-degree murder challenges the adequacy of defendant’s guilty plea proceeding. We affirm.

According to the minutes attached to the trial information, defendant killed his two-year old stepdaughter. At the guilty plea hearing defendant gave his version. He said he “was trying to keep her active because she was running a fever, for a couple of days so we were playing with her dolls and stuff and she had struck me with a toy and, out of reflex, I pushed her and she hit the closet door and that’s when she resulted in…