People v. Neal

Defendant was convicted by a jury of manslaughter. After sentence, he appeals as a matter of right.

Defendant was charged with the slaying of his 17-year-old girlfriend, when her skull was found some two months after she disappeared from her home. The victim was pregnant at the time of her death, and, although defendant denied it, there was evidence that she claimed that he was the father. There was also evidence that defendant vowed that he would never pay child support for the victim’s then unborn child.

Found in a pine grove near where the victim’s skull was found was a plastic afro-style…