Dorroh v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Drury, Commissioner—

Reversing.

Dr. H. C. Dorroh seeks by this appeal to reverse a judgment imposing upon him two years’ confinement in the penitentiary for the death of Bessie Kouns resulting from an alleged criminal abortion.

On Saturday, April 14,1928, Dr. T. D. Goodman was called to see Bessie Kouns. He found her suffering great pain with considerable swelling and tenderness in lower abdominal region. He saw her again on the 15th, 16th, and 17th; her condition was not responding to treatment, and on the latter date she was at his suggestion taken to the Stephenson…