State v. Wickstrom

Donald Wickstrom (defendant) repeatedly hit and kicked his girlfriend, Cynthia Hall, who was eight months pregnant with his child, landing several blows to her abdomen; the pregnancy was subsequently lost, and Hall delivered a stillborn child. Wickstrom was convicted of second-degree felony murder, first-degree assault, and criminal abortion; both Hall and her mother testified Wickstrom intended only to harm them, not to end the pregnancy, and Wickstrom argued his intoxication and lack of specific intent to abort should defeat the criminal abortion conviction. Wickstrom appealed.