State v. Reyes

SILAK, Judge.

About mid-day on April 17, 1990, Maria Reyes went to the play pen where she had put her nine-week-old son, Phabian, to bed. When she tried to wake the infant, Reyes discovered he was dead. The initial diagnosis of the coroner indicated the cause of death was Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), however, subsequent tests of the infant’s body fluids revealed that the infant’s death was caused by cocaine overdose. Reyes was indicted on one count of felony injury to a child, I.C. § 18-1501(1). She was convicted after a jury trial.

The district court entered a judgment of conviction…