GA 16-5-1 - GA 16-5-1

2. Children as Victims When a child born alive afterward dies by reason of bruises inflicted on the child, before birth, by the beating of the child's mother, the offense is murder. Ranger v. State, 249 Ga. 315 , 290 S.E.2d 63 (1982). Evidence insufficient for murder of baby. - Defendant's conviction for felony murder of the baby was not supported by sufficient evidence as there was no proof that the murder of the adult victim proximately caused the baby's death. Walker v. State, 296 Ga. 161 , 766 S.E.2d 28 (2014). Evidence sufficient for murder of infant child. - Evidence was sufficient to permit a rational trier of fact to find that a female defendant's infant son was born alive, had a separate and independent existence from the defendant, was murdered by the defendant, and the body subs...