APPEAL BY JEHU

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29178, 12 April 1960, Page 19

APPEAL BY JEHU

Conviction For Manslaughter (N.Z. Press Association— Copyright) MELBOURNE, April .11. Alvin Leonard Jehu, the 29-year-old Jehovah’s Witness who, for religious reasons, refused to permit doctors tc give an emergency exchange blood transfusion to his two-day-old son, today appealed to the Supreme Court against his corviction in Geperal Sessions for the manslaughter of bis child. Jehu, a printer, claims in one ground of appeal that he was legally entitled to refuse permission having regard to his conscientious~Abd "Sincere religious ground of appeal is that as a parent of. the child Stephen, he was legally justified in exercising his discretion against a transfusion to the circumstances existing at the time he refused consent. At his trial last month Jehu said that he also objected to a blood transfusion because of what he had read about its effects. Jehu, who was released on £lOO bond to be of good behaviour for five years, has set out many grounds of appeal under five headings. In his notice of appeal, Jehu states a desire that the case be argued orally.