State v. Closterman

BERREY, Judge.

The defendant, Danny Gene Closterman, was convicted of manslaughter in the death of his three and one-half year old stepdaughter, Colleen. The jury imposed a sentence of ten (10) years in the Missouri Department of Corrections. From this sentence defendant appeals and raises three points of trial court error: (I) insufficient evidence existed to support a guilty verdict, (a) because evidence established a number of possible causes of death, (b) because no credible or substantial evidence that defendant committed any act upon decedent causing her death existed in that the State…