People v. Bruen

Appeals by the defendants from two judgments (one as to each of them) of the County Court, Westchester County (Delaney, J.), both rendered August 28, 1981, convicting them of manslaughter in the first degree, upon jury verdicts, and imposing sentences.

Judgments affirmed.

The defendants Bruen and Fisher brought the lifeless body of Bruen’s four-year-old daughter to the Peekskill Community Hospital emergency room claiming that she had fallen down the stairs. When emergency room personnel observed numerous bruises all over the child’s body the police were called. While separate interviews were…