State v. Rivers

THE HONORABLE W. W. LESSLEY, District Judge,

sitting in place of MR. JUSTICE BOTTOMLY:

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction; the defendant was convicted of second degree murder, for her alleged wilful omission to provide sufficient food and care for her three month old daughter, Mary Melva Rivers.

Mary Melva Rivers died January 21, 1957; at the time of her death she was age three months and seven days. She weighed six pounds, thirteen ounces at birth; on January 9, 1957 (thirteen days before her death), she weighed seven pounds, two ounces; at death she weighed seven pounds, six…