Greenwood v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Comanche County; J. T. Johnson, Judge. Clark Greenwood was convicted of procuring an abortion, and he brings error. At the January term of the district court of Comanche county the plaintiff in error was indicted, charged with the crime of procuring an abortion.
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Error from District Court, Comanche County; J. T. Johnson, Judge. Clark Greenwood was convicted of procuring an abortion, and he brings error. At the January term of the district court of Comanche county the plaintiff in error was indicted, charged with the crime of procuring an abortion. The charging part of the indictment, as appears in the ease-made, is as follows: “That on the-day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and six, at and within said county, and within the jurisdiction of said court, Clark Greenwood, then and there being, did then and there unlawfully,…
1Opinion of the CourtOwen, Judge
(after stating the facts as above). Counsel for defendant, in the brief filed in this case, urge two assignments of error for reversing the case. The reasons urged are: “First. There is no public offense charged in said indictment, for the following reasons, viz.: The advising or procuring a. pregnant woman to use instruments is not contemplated by the act itself, and because the pleader failed to set out the name of the instrument employed, and also failed to tell upon what portion of complainant’s body the instrument or instruments were used, and m what manner. Second, there was no…
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