State v. Smith
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk District Court.- — Hon. S. F. Baddiet, Judge. The defendant was indicted, tried, and convicted of the crime of producing a miscarriage of a pregnant woman, namely, Ollie Newman, and judgment of imprisonment in the penitentiary pronounced against her, from which judgment she appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtGiven, J.
I. The following statement of facts that appear in the record will make plain the questions to be considered: On and prior to September 24, 1898, the defendant, Mrs. C. Y. Smith, resided in the city of Des Moines, and was engaged in the regular practice of medicine. On said day Ollie Newman, an unmarried woman, aged twenty-three, residing at the town of Swan, — and with whom and her family the defendant had been intimately acquainted for many years, — came to the defendant for treatment. Ollie Newman was then advanced between five and six months in pregnancy. She remained in the defendant’s…
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