People v. Stanley

— Casey, J.

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Broome County (Coutant, J.), rendered May 3, 1985, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crimes of murder in the second degree and endangering the welfare of a child.

At about 8:30 a.m. on June 8, 1984, Andrew Larsen, age six months, died in Wilson Memorial Hospital in the City of Binghamton. The cause of death was severe head trauma which in turn caused a swelling of the brain, marked by vomiting and asphyxiation. In the opinion of a forensic pathologist, the head trauma resulted from two blows to the head incurred up to 36 hours…