Dant woke up April and informed her of the situation. April immediately went to find Troy Roberts, an emergency medical technician who lived four trailers down from theirs, while Dant began performing CPR on Addryana. Troy Roberts testified at trial that upon arriving at Dant's trailer, he encountered Dant attempting to give Addryana CPR. When he examined Addryana, however, she had no pulse and had mucus around her nose. Roberts then radioed for an ambulance. The ambulance and an Advanced Life Support Unit arrived on the scene and took Addryana and her family to the hospital.
Kim Stearsman, who was one of the nurses working in the emergency room on the night Addryana died, testified at trial that when April and Dant first arrived at the hospital, April wasrelatively calm and told Dant that he should not blame himself for what happened. However, after Addryana was pronounced dead and Stearsman returned to the family in order to ask them if they had had sufficient time to view the body, Stearsman stated that April was yelling at Dant, saying that she would still have her baby if it were not for him and that this was all his fault. Stearsman testified that she could not tell if Dant disputed April's statement, but that Dant eventually left the room crying.
The Deputy Coroner, Michael Postlewaite, testified that upon examining Addryana's body externally, he found no significant signs of physical trauma. After listing her cause of death as an "inflicted *16 closed head injury," Postlewaite transferred Addryana's body to Madisonville,