Infanticide

Where a woman by any wilful act causes the death of her child being a child under the age of twelve months, but at the time of the act the balance of her mind was disturbed by reason of her not having fully recovered from the effect of giving birth to the child or by reason of the effect of lactation consequent upon the birth of the child, then, notwithstanding that the circumstances were such that but for this section the crime would have amounted to murder, she shall be guilty of felony, to wit, of infanticide, and may for such crime be dealt with and punished as if she had been guilty of the crime of manslaughter of the child.