Commonwealth v. Brown

After the testimony had concluded, the Recorder said, the facts which appear are these:

That the prisoner was delivered of a living child; that when accused of having been so delivered, she did not deny it; that she was not aware of her condition prior to the delivery; that the time when, or under what circumstances, the child died, are not known nor pretended to be susceptible of clear proof; no facts were in evidence which raise the presumption that the prisoner either killed her offspring, or that she was even aware of its death. As to the charge of concealment, the evidence strongly proves…