State v. Bassett

TUCKETT, Justice:

The defendants were found guilty in the court below of the crime of involuntary manslaughter. The charge against the defendants arose out of the death of their minor child.

The defendants Weldon and Judy Bassett were husband and wife and on September 11, 1970, Judy Bassett gave birth to a daughter, Erica Jean Bassett, at a hospital in Ogden, Utah. At all times we are concerned with here Judy Bassett suffered from poor eyesight and was rated as being industrially and legally blind. The delivery *274of the baby was a breech birth and the family doctor was in attendance at the time.

On…