Closing arguments in the trial for Christopher Lyman in Geary County District Court are scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Wednesday.

The defense rested their case, and prosecutor Chris Biggs called only one rebuttal witness onTuesday.

Lyman is charged with Premeditated Murder, three counts Felony Murder based on an underlying felony of child abuse in three theories….torture, shaking, and cruelly beaten, plus three counts of Child Abuse, and one count each of Aggravated Battery and Aggravated Criminal Sodomy.  The charges stem from the case involving the September 2013 death of an eight-month old infant boy.

The infant was taken to the emergency room at Geary Community Hospital on September 15, 2013, and then transported to Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri with major injuries. On September 18, 2013, police had learned that the boy had died.

This is the second week in the trial for Christopher Lyman.