The prosecution's eyewitness, defendant's 6½-year-old son, testified that on the Christmas morning of 1989, as he opened gifts in the living room, he overheard his mother screaming in the bedroom. He then saw her emerge from the bedroom being beaten with the broken leg of a wooden chair by his father, defendant Bennie Shellman. She was pronounced dead at 12:05 P.M. at the emergency room of Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, where defendant had taken her for treatment.<...
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