Hall v. State

The appellant Leo Hall was indicted, along with one John C. Clements, at the November 1962 term of the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, on a charge of attempted criminal abortion. The crime was alleged to have been committed on September 4, 1962. The indictment charged that the appellant and his coindictee, John C. Clements, “did then and there willfully, unlawfully and feloniously and knowingly attempt to cause Mary Ann Eakin Johnson, a female, then pregnant with child, to abort and miscarry by the use of instruments, medicines and drugs and by transporting the…