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PEOPLE v. WATSON

No. 17065.

103 Ill. App.3d 992 (1982)

431 N.E.2d 1350

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. EDGAR CHRISTOPHER WATSON, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

Opinion filed February 4, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederic M. Grosser, of Grosser and Hays, of Champaign, for appellant.

Thomas J. Difanis, State's Attorney, of Urbana (Donald R. Parkinson, Assistant State's Attorney, and Heidi Ladd and Timothy Andrew Swain, law students, of counsel), for the People.

Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE LONDRIGAN delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant was convicted of the involuntary manslaughter of 23-month-old Shalita Stewart. He was sentenced to 2 years' imprisonment.

Shalita died of an infection which resulted from burns suffered while she was under the defendant's care. Medical testimony showed that Shalita suffered circumferential burns on her lower extremities caused by immersion in a hot liquid. She had...

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