Case ID: nj_66/html/0466-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE OF NEW JERSEY, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, v. SARAH WRIGHT, DEFENDANT-RESPONDENT.
    Argued January 21, 1975
    Decided January 28, 1975.
    
      
      Mr. Carl W. Swanson, Jr., Assistant Prosecutor, argued the cause for the appellant (Mr. John S. Kuhlthau, Middlesex County Prosecutor, attorney).
    
      Ms. Jane G. Kleinfeld, Assistant Deputy Public Defender, argued the cause for the respondent (Mr. Stanley Van Ness, Public Defender, attorney).
   Per Curiam.

The judgment of the Appellate Division is reversed, and the conviction for manslaughter is reinstated and the conviction for child neglect is vacated substantially for the reasons expressed by Judge Allcorn in his dissenting opinion reported at 132 N. J. Super. 130, 147 (1974).

For reversal — Chief Justice Hughes, Justices Jacobs, Mountain, Sullivan, Pashman and Clifford and Judge Kolovsict — 7.

For affirmance — None.