Note 49 — ABORTION AND INFANTICIDE.
Reading edition
By the Stat. 21 Jac. c. 27. If a woman delivered of issue, which being born alive would be a bastard, endeavour by burying, drowning, &c. by herself or others, so as to conceal its death, that it may not appear, whether born alive or not, it is murder, unless she prove by one witness at least, that it was born dead. Ba. Abr. tit. Bastard.