SCHLERET v. STATE

Nos. 48197, 50363.

311 N.W.2d 843 (1981)

Barbara Alice SCHLERET, petitioner, Appellant, v. STATE of Minnesota, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

November 6, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fryberger, Buchanan, Smith, Sanford & Frederick, William D. Sommerness and Joseph R. Cade, Duluth, for appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., Thomas L. Fabel, Deputy Atty. Gen., Jerry S. Anderson and Gary Hansen, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., St. Paul, Donald J. Diesen, County Atty., Carlton, for respondent.

Reheard, considered and decided by the court en banc.


OTIS, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction for first degree manslaughter arising out of the death of appellant's stepson, Brian Schleret, age three. We affirm.

We having previously upheld convictions for felonious assaults on children where, in the absence of direct evidence there was circumstantial evidence to support a finding that the child had been a victim of a succession of non-accidental instances of harm at the hands of someone else. The term...

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