Nebraska Supreme Court· 1/3/1980

State v. Doyle

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287 N.W.2d 59
205 Neb. 234
1980 Neb. LEXIS 692

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reversing involuntary manslaughter conviction following unattended birth because “[t]here was no evidence offered by the State that had the defendant done something, which she did not do, the infant would have lived”
fetus must be “born alive” for manslaughter
“At best the evidence, almost exclusively circumstantial in nature, disclosed that a child was born to the defendant and that the child died. The pathologist was unable to testify as to any cause of death and could not testify that the cause of death was not from natural causes”

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Judges: Krivosha, Boslaugh, McCown, Clinton, Brodkey, White, Hastings

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