Max v. People

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of not less than twenty nor more than thirty years, on a verdict of guilty of second degree murder committed by performing an abortion which caused the death of Margaret Watkins. To reverse that judgment he prosecutes this writ and rests his case here on the alleged erroneous admission of certain evidence.

In 1906 defendant was licensed to practice medicine in Colorado. That license was revoked in 1918, on a charge of abortion, and not thereafter restored. In the summer of 1924 defendant was…