Pleak v. State

In this criminal action, the appellant was charged by indictment, tried by jury and convicted of producing an abortion on one Clara Coomes. Judgment of fine and imprisonment was rendered on the verdict of the jury. The crime of abortion is defined in §2435 Burns 1926.

The appellant has assigned seven causes for a reversal of the judgment. Five of these causes relate to the ruling on a plea in abatement, which alleged that the grand jury which indicted the appellant was not a legal grand jury. The sixth and seventh causes question the overruling of motions to quash the indictment and for a new…