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Criminal Law Keyed to Capers
Oxendine v. State
Citation:
528 A.2d 870 (1987)
ProfessorScott Caron
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On the morning of January 18, 1984, Leotha Tyree, Oxendine’s girlfriend, who lived with him, pushed Jeffrey into the bathtub causing microscopic tears in his intestines which led to peritonitis. When Oxendine returned home from work, he saw bruises on Jeffrey and knew that Tyree had beaten the child during the day. The next morning, Oxendine went into Jeffrey’s bedroom and began screaming at him to get up. A neighbor in the same apartment building testified to hearing sounds coming from the room of blows being struck, obscenities uttered by a male voice, and cries from a child saying, “Please stop, Daddy, it hurts.” En route to the hospital, Jeffrey stopped breathing; and was pronounced dead shortly after his arrival at the hospital.
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