State v. Parmenter

By the time Dr. Thomas reached the emergency room of Auburn General Hospital the early morning of September 27, 1966, 4-year-old Delana Davis was dead. There was nothing the doctor could do for the child, but his findings and observations initiated a chain of proceedings culminating in an information charging the foster parents of the dead child with manslaughter under the criminal code.

Filed by the Prosecuting Attorney for King County, under RCW 9.48.060 and 9.48.010, the information charged conjunctively that the Parmenters, between September 1, 1966, and September 26, 1966, struck and beat…