State v. Weekes

Rogosheske, Justice.

Defendant, William Elmer Weekes, was found guilty by a jury of manslaughter in the first degree upon an information charging him with causing the death of a 3-year-old child by an intentional assault of striking the child in the abdomen with his fist with such force and violence that great bodily harm was reasonably foreseeable. Minn. St. 609.20(2).1 The prosecution’s unrefuted medical testimony supported its theory that the child died from internal hemorrhaging as a direct result of the blow described by defendant in an oral statement, which was later transcribed and…