Hunter v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Wilson. Tried before Hon. L. B. Camp, Special Judge. Appeal from a conviction for an attempt to produce an abortion; penalty, a fine of $200. The means used to produce the abortion, as shown by the testimony of Florence Johnson, the prosecutrix, were ergot and turpentine. They failed to produce the abortion, and the contention of defendant was, that that the expert evidence failed to show that such means were calculated to produce abortion.
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Appeal from the County Court of Wilson. Tried before Hon. L. B. Camp, Special Judge. Appeal from a conviction for an attempt to produce an abortion; penalty, a fine of $200. The means used to produce the abortion, as shown by the testimony of Florence Johnson, the prosecutrix, were ergot and turpentine. They failed to produce the abortion, and the contention of defendant was, that that the expert evidence failed to show that such means were calculated to produce abortion. The substance of the expert testimony upon this point is set out in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVID SOFT, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of willfully and designedly attempting to produce an abortion on one Florence Johnson, then and there a pregnant woman, by administering to her, with her consent, a certain drug and medicine, well calculated to produce an abortion upon her.
On the trial, appellant did not reserve any exceptions to the rulings of the court, and files no assignments of error in this court. The first ground of the motion for a new trial in the court below avers that the court erred in permitting the county attorney to compel the defendant, while on the witness stand, to…
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