State v. Stillman

BARRETT, Commissioner.

Charles Stillman, a tuck pointer, has been found guilty of performing an illegal abortion, and his punishment has been fixed at four months and one day in jail and a fine of one thousand dollars. He does not question the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain his conviction, except in one respect. That respect is his conténtion that the state “failed to prove by any competent evidence that the complaining witness * * * was in a state of good health prior to and including the date of the alleged abortion.”

The prosecutrix is a young divorcee, the mother of two children.…