Wilson v. State

Dr. Allen B. Wilson, a physician of Hagerstown, was found guilty by a jury in the Circuit Court for Washington County on the charge of unlawfully causing a certain drug to be used by Frances Jane Stanley on August 9, 1941, for the purpose of causing abortion. Code, 1939, Art. 27, Sec. 3.

Mrs. Stanley, a resident of Pennsylvania, twenty-one years old, testified that she was married in June, 1941, and that she called at Dr. Wilson’s office on July 31, when he administered a salve which he claimed would produce a miscarriage within twenty-four hours. As the; miscarriage did not occur, she…