State v. Harnden

A complaint, under the provisions of Section 249, Chapter 25, R. S. 1954 was brought against the appellants in the Rumford Municipal Court on April 5, 1957, alleging that they had cruelly treated and willfully neglected a minor child belonging to the appellants. The case was heard in the aforesaid Municipal Court resulting in a decree committing the child to the Department of Health and Welfare. From this order an appeal to the Superior Court in and for the County of Oxford at the May 1957 Term was duly taken, under authority of Section 250, Chapter 25, R. S. 1954. At the aforesaid May Term,…