Commonwealth v. Railing
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer, of Cumberland county: Of July Term, 1885, No. 41. Indictment of Charles C. Railing for the murder of Annie Foust. Motion to quash the indictment. After hearing, Sadler, P. J., filed the following opinion from which the facts of the case appear.
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Error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer, of Cumberland county: Of July Term, 1885, No. 41. Indictment of Charles C. Railing for the murder of Annie Foust. Motion to quash the indictment. After hearing, Sadler, P. J., filed the following opinion from which the facts of the case appear. Charles A. Railing was indicted at the Court of Quarter Sessions of April T. 1884, under the 87th section of our Criminal Code, for an attempt to procure an abortion upon one Annie Foust, who was pregnant, and which resulted in her death. Upon the trial of the case, which terminated in the conviction of the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Mekcttb
In Railing v. Commonwealth, 16 W. N. C., 452, the unlawful acts charged were presented under an indictment of another form. We reversed that judgment for error in admitting certain declarations in evidence. The indictment then charged the defendant with having administered a drug to Annie Foust with intent to produce a miscarriage, and that her death resulted as a consequence of so administering it. That indictment was framed under the 87th section of the Criminal Code of 31st March, 1860. It declares if any person shall unlawfully administer to any woman, pregnant or quick with child, or…
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