STATE v. OHNSTAD

Cr. No. 985.

359 N.W.2d 827 (1984)

STATE of North Dakota, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Denise N. OHNSTAD, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of North Dakota.

December 19, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert G. Hoy, State's Atty., Fargo, for plaintiff and appellee; argued by Robert G. Hoy, State's Atty., Fargo.

Lanier, Knox & Olson, Fargo, for defendant and appellant; argued by Frank L. Racek, Fargo.


ERICKSTAD, Chief Justice.

A grand jury issued an indictment charging that Denise N. Ohnstad, on or about November 3, 1982, committed the crime of manslaughter or, in the alternative, negligent homicide, in that she recklessly or negligently caused the death of a six-month-old child, Shannon Leigh Ohnstad, "by unknown means sufficient to cause a severe head injury which resulted in her [Shannon's] death." After a six-day...

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