Dillon v. State

OPINION

ROSS, Judge.

Richard Dillon’s wife spent three weeks in intensive care following life-saving surgery and another month hospitalized after Dillon struck and kicked her while she lay on the floor. Dillon inflicted the following injuries while taunting her between several of the blows: broken ribs; head, face, arm, and torso bruising; massive contusion of the vaginal and inner-thigh region; severe liver laceration requiring a hepatec-tomy; “blowout” eye fracture requiring surgery and causing permanent vision loss; swollen gallbladder requiring a cholecys-tectomy; large-intestine damage…