State v. Hutto

Lewis, Justice.

Defendant has appealed from her conviction, under Section 16-83 of the 1962 Code of Laws, of the crime of abortion, and from the revocation of a prior probationary sentence imposed for a similar offense.

The first questions to be decided concern the form of the indictment and sufficiency of the proof thereunder. Sections 16-82 and 16-83 of the 1962 Code of Laws deal with separate and distinct offenses of abortion. Section 16-82 “is directed to a case where a pregnant woman is aborted, or attempted to be aborted, and dies by reason thereof, or where a woman ‘quick with child’ is…