State v. Stapp

— The defendant, a practicing physician, was convicted of the crime of abortion, in the superior court for Chehalis county, and sentenced to serve a term of nine months in the county jail. He has appealed to this court.

It is first contended that the trial court erroneously denied appellant’s motion for a directed verdict in his favor. The grounds upon which this contention is rested are that there is no evidence showing appellant’s connection with the crime charged, save the testimony of two witnesses who it is insisted were accomplices in the crime, and whose testimony the court should have…