State v. D. OSMUS

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a mother could not be found guilty of murder for failing to obtain medical care during childbirth
• holding that a mother could not be found guilty of murder for failing to obtain medical care during childbirth
• rejecting prosecutor’s argument that “not alone was it an unlawful act to fail to provide medical [or perhaps other] care for the infant to be born, but that it was also criminal negligence”
• nonfeasance during unattended birth, by a twenty-one year old defendant who had some training as a nurse, insufficient to prove manslaughter
• nonfeasance during unattended birth, by a twenty-one-year-old defendant who had some training as a nurse, insufficient to prove manslaughter
• defendant’s failure to receive medical care during childbirth was insufficient to sustain manslaughter conviction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).