Alleged Manslaughter.
(Per Press Association.) Carterton, This day Charles and Emily Higgison were oharged at the Greytown Magistrate’s Court yesterday, with the manslaughter of their iufaut 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 aod starvation. The husband was oharged with the mother of the infant, under sections 148 and 149 of “ The Criminal Code,” enacting that the head of the family who fails to provide the necessaries of life for a person in his charge under the age of 16, is orimioally responsible if death supervenes. Both accused were committed for trial.
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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 5086, 21 March 1907, Page 3
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