State v. Durfee

KELLEY, Justice..

Appellant was found guilty by a St. Louis County district court jury of first degree assault on Rose Tittman, the 13-month old daughter of his live-in girlfriend, committed on September 10, 1980. Appellant seeks reversal and a new trial on the grounds (1) that one of the state’s witnesses was permitted to express his opinion as to whether this was a case of the “battered child syndrome”; (2) that the state erred in introducing evidence about the “battering parent syndrome”; (3) that it was error to admit photographs of the battered child in evidence following appellant’s…