Coffman v. Commonwealth

At the April term,' 1947, an indictment was returned in the Circuit Court of Rockingham county charging that the' defendant, Iva Rodeffer Davis Coffman, on or about the 28th of January, 1947, “unlawfully, feloniously and wilfully did use and employ in and upon the body of one Kerneda Bennett, a female person then and there pregnant with child, a certan instrument, the name and character of which is to said grand jurors unknown, with intent then and there to destroy the said unborn child of the said Kerneda Bennett and to produce an abortion or miscarriage, and then, there and thereby did…