State v. Abercrombie

TITUS, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was jury-convicted of the second degree murder (§ 565.004) 1 (now repealed) of his seven-week-old daughter whose death was averredly caused in violation of § 568.060 when defendant allegedly shook “her and her head causing bilateral subdural hematomas and bilateral cerebral contusion thereby causing [her] to die on November 27, 1982.” Per the verdict, defendant was sentenced to a 25 year term of imprisonment. Defendant appealed.

Viewed in the light most favorable to the state, State v. Brown, 660 S.W.2d 694, 699[10] (Mo. banc 1983), the trial evidence showed…