STATE v. SUMLER

No. 63810.

395 So.2d 766 (1981)

STATE of Louisiana v. Diane SUMLER.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied April 6, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., J. Carl Parkerson, Dist. Atty., Steven A. Hansen, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.

Thomas W. Davenport, Jr., Monroe, for defendant-appellant.


DIXON, Chief Justice.

In December, 1977 defendant appeared in a hospital emergency room with her eighteen month old son. Forty per cent of his body had been burned—from his waist down to his toes; thirty per cent of his body was covered with third degree burns— burns completely through the skin, down, at least, to the subcutaneous fat layer. His skin was blistered, cracked open and peeling. The third degree burns required grafting procedures. The child...

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