Conaway v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Criminal Court of Baltimore City (Dobles, J.). Criminal proceeding against May Conaway. Ffom a judgment of imprisonment, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtOfitjtt, J.
May Conaway was indicted, tried, and convicted of the crime of abortion, in the Criminal Court of Baltimore City, and sentenced to three years in the Maryland Penitentiary, and from that judgment she has taken this appeal.
In the course of the trial Dr. Street, a witness for the State, having testified that he had examined the woman upon whom an operation inducing the abortion had been performed and that she appeared to have had a “miscarriage or an abortion,” Was asked: “Would there have been any evidence or any marks that you could have seen when you saw the patient if an abortion had been…
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