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Missouri Court of Appeals· 10/5/1999

State v. Riggs

Citations

  • 2 S.W.3d 867
  • 1999 Mo. App. LEXIS 1968
  • 1999 WL 786865

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  • affirming a mother's conviction under the same statutory language, after the accidental drowning death of her young son, for leaving him unsupervised near an unfenced pond
  • affirming the conviction of a mother for endangering the welfare of her child where she left her two-year-old child outside without supervision for a period of forty-five minutes after having been warned about the existence of an unfenced pond nearby
  • evidence legally insufficient to support mother's conviction for involuntary manslaughter because facts and circumstances were not sufficient to establish gross negligence or show a conscious disregard for human life
  • evidence sufficient to support conviction of child endangerment where defendant left two year old child outdoors for forty-five minutes, without proper supervision, and with unfenced pond nearby
  • evidence was legally insufficient to support mother's conviction for involuntary manslaughter involving the death of her child; stating that \mere inattention or mistaken judgment resulting even in the death of another is not criminal unless the quality of the act makes it so\
  • evidence was legally insufficient to support mother's conviction for involuntary manslaughter involving the death of her child; stating that \mere inattention or mistaken judgment resulting even in the death of another is not criminal unless the quality of the act makes it so\

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Judges: Stith, Lowenstein, Riederer

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