State v. Stroud

The defendants were jointly indicted and jointly tried for murder. Both were convicted of manslaughter. According to the medical evidence, Anna Ruth Bass Ammons “. . . died directly as a result of pulmonary air embolism. ... It (death) was directly caused by an attempted abortion . . . Pulmonary air embolism is always followed immediately by death, in a matter of seconds. . . . There are many ways, seven or eight, in which air may get into the blood stream. In this particular case there was only one way it could because there was no other evidence. In this case air had to have been, on the…