PEOPLE v. PHILLIPS


47 A.D.2d 876 (1975)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Clifford Phillips, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

April 15, 1975


Defendant was convicted of manslaughter of his three-year old child by beating and forced ingestion of salt water. The chief witness against him was his common-law wife, mother of the child, who testified to her knowledge of a series of beatings culminating in the fatal one; that, at defendant's request, she had sent another child with salt to the room in which the beating occurred; and that she had participated in concealing the death and in disposal of the body. There was...

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