Barbara Alice Schleret v. State Minnesota

Circumstantial evidence that successive non-accidental injuries were inflicted upon a three-year-old child while in the custody of appellant was sufficient to support her conviction for manslaughter in the first degree under the rules defining ""battered child syndrome"" adopted in State v. Loss, 295 Minn. 271, 204 N.W.2d 404(1973). OTIS, Justice.