Clayton v. State

Paul Clayton was indicted, tried and convicted in the Howard Circuit Court for cansing an abortion. The indictment, omitting the formal part, reads as follows: “The said Paul Clayton in the county and State aforesaid, on the 30th day of June, 1932, did unlawfully and feloniously administer and prescribe to one Eunice Burk, a woman with child, before the period of quickening, a quantity of drugs and medicine with intent then and there and thereby to produce an abortion, against the peace and dignity of the State of Arkansas.”

Mrs. Nona Burk, the mother of Eunice Burk, testified that Eunice was…