Harrod v. United States

MARTIN, Chief Justice.

The appellant was indicted, convicted, and sentenced in the lower court, under section 809, D. C. Code, for the crime of having, on November 27, 1926, willfully and feloniously caused and produced a miscarriage of one Edna K. Steinbrueker, a pregnant woman, by the use of certain instruments upon her person, whieh acts were not necessary to preserve her life and health, nor done under the direction of a competent licensed practitioner of medicine.

The government first introduced the testimony of Edna K. Steinbrueker and of one Jolliffe, by whom she was with child, and who…