State v. Patterson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

B. J. Patterson and J. A. Gregoire were convicted of manslaughter in the fourth and first degrees, respectively, and appeal. The defendants are physicians, and the *10charge against them is that they operated upon Floris Lewis to produce an abortion, thereby causing her. death. She died following an operation at their hands, but they assert that its purpose was to remedy conditions brought about by a venereal disease from which she was suffering, and that she was not pregnant.

1. Complaint is made of the failure of the court to give an…