Encina v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding intent where two-year-old died from bleeding and swelling in brain caused by child’s father pushing child into blunt object
• comparing an adult to the size of a child to conclude that “[a]ny violent assault on such a baby may be reasonably expected to cause death”
• confession considered as part sufficiency of evidence challenge
• confession considered as part sufficiency of evidence challenge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).