CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER
COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. _P_r Pbiss Association.] CARTERTON, March 21. Charles, and Emily Higgison were charged at the Greytown Magistrate's Court yesterday with the manslaughter of their infant daughter Susan. Evidence was • given that the mother, though able, refused to suckle the child, whose death, according to the medical testimony, was due to neglect and starvation. The husband was charged with the mother of the infant, under Section© 148 and 149 of the Criminal Code, enacting that the head of a family who fails to provide the necessities of life for a person in his. charge who is under the age of sixteen yeara is criminally responsible if death supervenes. Both accused were committed for trial.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8884, 21 March 1907, Page 3
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