CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER
HUSBAND AND WIFE COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. Unitid Peess Association.) CARTERTON, March 21. Charles and • Emily iliggison wejo charged at Greytown yesterday with the manslaughter of their infant child, Susan. Evidence was ; given tliat tho mother, though able, had refused to' sueldo tho child, whoso death, according to the mcdical testimony, was duo to ncglcct and starvation.. The. husband was charged, with the irsther of tho infant, under sections 148 and 149 of the Criminal Code, which' enact that tho head of tho family who fails to provido the necessities of life for a. pi-rson in liis charge lindcr tlio ago of 16 is criminally responsible if death supervenes. Both "the accused wero committed for trial. Bail was allowed in eacli prisoner's recognisance of £50, and two sureties of a like amount.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13858, 22 March 1907, Page 3
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