Schleret v. State

OTIS, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction for first degree manslaughter arising out of the death of appellant’s stepson, Brian Schleret, age three. We affirm.

We having previously upheld convictions for felonious assaults on children where, in the absence of direct evidence there was circumstantial evidence to support a finding that the child had been a victim of a succession of non-accidental instances of'harm at the hands of someone else. The term we have adopted to describe the offense is the “battered child syndrome.” State v. Goblirsch, 309 Minn. 401, 246 N.W.2d 12 (1976); State…