Frazier v. State

CATES, Judge.

Frazier appeals his conviction of voluntary manslaughter for the killing of his eighteen months’ old son, Uless Frazier, by beating him with a fly swatter.

The beating, lasting off and on some thirty minutes was administered about 9:30 o’clock on the night of November 14, 1957. Frazier’s wife’s best judgment was he hit the baby about eight or ten licks. The child died November 17.

An assistant state toxicologist testified the contusions lowered the child’s resistance and it died from traumatic pneumonia. A practicing physician testified that traumatic pneumonia could come about…