Legal Opinion
People v. Snipe
California Court of Appeal
Decided May 18, 1972No. Crim. 1085PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
GARGANO, J.
On March 1, 1969, respondent, Delsa Ann Snipe, brought her 3-year-old daughter Sonja Christol to the Modesto City Hos pital for treatment. The child had been brutally beaten on February 26, 1969, and had sustained a complete rupture of the duodenum, causing leakage of the bowel contents; it was the medical opinion that a massive blow to the abdomen caused the rupture of the bowel. Thereafter, Mrs. Snipe and respondent (Charles Franklin Tademy were convicted of wilful cruelty and of inflicting unjustifiable punishment on a child in violation of Penal Code section 273 a and…
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