In re Crandall

Warren Crandall, j$„, seeks release from imprisonment through the writ of habeas corpus. The history of the prosecution and the imprisonment is briefly as follows : On May 3, 1897, Lizzie Hinds *672filed a complaint before a justice of the peace charging that Crandall did feloniously use and cause and procure to be used, certain instruments, which were thrust in and upon the body and womb of Lizzie Hinds, a woman pregnant with a quick child, with intent to destroy such child. That the use of the instruments was not necessary to preserve the life of the mother, and was not advised by a physician…