Ladnier v. State

The appellant was- convicted of manslaughter under section 1235, Code of 1906 (Hemingway’s Code 1927, section 1014), which provides:

“ Every person who shall administer to any woman pregnant with a quick child any medicine, drug, or substance whatever, or shall use or employ any instrument or other means, with intent thereby to destroy such child, and shall thereby destroy it, shall be guilty of manslaughter, unless the same shall have been advised by a physician to be necessary for such purpose.”

The indictment does not allege that the defendant, the appellant here, acted under the advice of a…