State v. Horne

Shaw, Acting Justice:

Appellant, Terrance Horne, was convicted of assault and battery with intent to kill and voluntary manslaughter in connection with the stabbing of his estranged wife, which resulted in the death of an unborn full-term viable female child the wife was carrying. We affirm in part and reverse in. part.

In August 1982, appellant attacked his wife, Deborah Horne, who had passed the ninth month of her pregnancy, with a knife, wounding her in the neck, arms, and abdomen. After the attack, Mrs. Horne was rushed to the Georgetown Hospital emergency room where doctors, after…