Shields v. State
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On error. The judgment returned with the'Writ of error is a judgment of conviction upon an indictment charging the crime of abortion.
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On error. The judgment returned with the'Writ of error is a judgment of conviction upon an indictment charging the crime of abortion. The proceedings certified by the trial judge contain the following statement: “In the progress of the trial, while the young woman, Lizzie Sliker, was on the stand giving her testimony she became nervous and embarrassed by a great number of men, young and old, gazing upon her; she seemed unable to proceed with her testimony on that account, and.in the interests of justice as well as of morality and decency, on account of the character-of the testimony, and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Magie, Chief Justice.
The act of the trial judge in excluding persons from the court-room in the manner shown in the preceding statement forms the sole ground of complaint before us.
While that act was objected to by plaintiff in error, he took no exception to it, and that the judge did so act is not shown by any bill of exceptions, but only by a certificate made under the supplement to the Criminal Procedure act, approved May 9th, 1894 (Gen. Stat, p. 1154, § 170), returning with the writ of error what that act curiously calls the record of the…
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