State v. Smolin

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Owsley, J.:

This is an appeal from a jury conviction of aggravated battery (K. S. A. 21-3414). The victim was defendant Margaret Smolin’s ten-month-old daughter, Golda.

On the morning of July 26, 1975, defendant brought her daughter to Asbury Hospital in Salina, Kansas. Golda was treated at the hospital by Dr. Frederick Gans, who observed the child had lost contact with its environment and had incurred superficial bruises over the body, bums on the top and bottom of both feet, a bum on the left shoulder and swelling of the right leg above the knee. A…