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- Title: State Missouri v. Dennis Franklin
- Author : Western District Court of Appeals of Missouri
- Release Date : January 01, 1993
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 59 KB
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A jury convicted Dennis Franklin of second degree murder for the death of his three-and-one-half year old son, Joshua. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Franklin appeals, claiming that the trial court erred in denying his motion for judgment of acquittal at the close of all the evidence because the state failed to present substantial evidence to prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. He also asserts that the trial court erred in allowing the state to submit evidence that Joshua was malnourished. 1 We affirm. The record, viewed in a light most favorable to the verdict, establishes that on June 4, 1991, at 10:27 P.M., police officers responded to a ""911"" call from Franklin's home. When they arrived at the home, Officer Wood saw Franklin administering CPR on Joshua. Joshua, however, exhibited no signs of life. Wood noticed a bruise on the right side of Joshua's cheek and temple, bruises on his chest, and an open wound that was partially scabbed on the back of his left hand.