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STATE v. WEEKES

No. 46023.

250 N.W.2d 590 (1977)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. William Elmer WEEKES, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

January 21, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Paul Jones, Public Defender, Gregory A. Gaut, Asst. Public Defender, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., Richard G. Mark, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frederick S. Suhler, Jr., Gary Hansen, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., St. Paul, Thomas D. Nagel, County Atty., Litchfield, for respondent.

Heard before ROGOSHESKE, PETERSON and SCOTT, JJ., and considered and decided by the court en banc.

ROGOSHESKE, Justice.

Defendant, William Elmer Weekes, was found guilty by a jury of manslaughter in the first degree upon an information charging him with causing the death of a 3-year-old child by an intentional assault of striking the child in the abdomen with his fist with such force and violence that great bodily harm was reasonably foreseeable. Minn.St. 609.20(2).1 The prosecution's unrefuted medical testimony supported its theory...

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