State v. Shapiro

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Kalisch, J.

The Supreme Court affirmed a judgment on a conviction of the plaintiff in error in the Essex County Quarter Sessions of having, by the use of instruments and without lawful justification, performed an abortion upon Eose Lebowitz, in consequence of which she died. The indictment alleges that the offence was committed on the 15th day of January, 1913, and contained four counts, but we are only concerned with the first and fourth counts which charged the plaintiff in error with the unlawful use of instruments with a criminal intent,- and upon…