State v. Yeager

VICTOR C. HOWARD, Presiding Judge.

A jury convicted Curtis T. Yeager (“defendant”) of one count of abuse of a child, § 568.060, RSMo Cum.Supp.1997, and one count of second-degree felony murder, § 565.021.1(2), RSMo 1994. Abuse of a child served as the underlying felony to support the murder conviction. The court sentenced him to serve concurrent terms of twenty years imprisonment for the murder and ten years for abuse of a child.

On appeal, defendant contends that the evidence was insufficient to establish that the child’s death was not the result of an accident.

Finding the evidence sufficient…