stylistic:tone, stylistic:style_transfer, quality:corruption
"In rerum natura "

As the defendant intended to commit that act, all the ingredients necessary for mens rea in regard to the crime of manslaughter were established, irrespective of who was the ultimate victim of it. The fact that the child whom the mother was carrying at the time was born alive and then died as a result of the stabbing is all that was needed for the offence of manslaughter when actus reus for that crime was completed by the child's death. The question, once all the other elements are satisfied, is simply one of causation. The defendant must accept all the consequences of his act... The death of the child was unintentional, but the nature and quality of the act which caused it was such that it was criminal and therefore punishable.