People v. Platter

Defendant, Norman L. Platter, was charged by indictment with the offense of involuntary manslaughter (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 38, par. 9—3). The indictment alleged that on February 2, 1979, defendant recklessly performed an act likely to cause death or great bodily harm, in that he struck Kristie Hubbard in the stomach, causing the rupture of her duodenum and her subsequent death. The victim was the three-year-old daughter of his fiancee, Kathy Hubbard, who was living with defendant in his parents’ home at the time. Defendant admitted striking the victim, but contended that the child…