Word: manslaughterer
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Some of Phil La Follette's last acts in office were regarded as none too glorious for a high-minded Progressive. The attempted draining of the State Treasury was one. Another was the pardoning of Thomas M. Duncan, part owner of the Milwaukee Leader and long Phil La Follette...
Mrs. Marotta hotly defended herself. Everyone knew she was a good woman, she said. Everyone knew she had been acquitted of manslaughter after shooting her lover, Louis Gumas, six years ago. She had never made the cornuto sign behind her husband's back. She had not made love behind...
Sandford staged cures and claimed he raised the dead, but at least 20 people died without medical care at Shiloh, and "Elijah" was thrice tried for manslaughter. He was convicted of nothing, however, until 1911, when he returned from a world voyage on a leaky schooner. Six followers had died...
Next day Tuffy's owner, Joseph Dobish, was held on $3,000 bail. The charge was not, curiously enough, cruelty to animals, but involuntary manslaughter.
The Infanticide Act repealed the Infanticide Act of 1922 and introduced the reform that an English mother who slays her child before it is one year old is no longer guilty of murder but only of "infanticide," which is punished as manslaughter.