Rickards v. State

The questions to be decided in this ease are raised by twenty-eight exceptions reserved in the course of the appellant’s trial, resulting in conviction, upon an indictment for manslaughter alleged to have been committed through an operation performed for the purpose of producing an abortion.

The -first exception was taken to the action of the trial Court in overruling an objection to a question addressed by the State to its principal witness, James R. Meredith, who . had been indicted jointly with the appellant, but had obtained a severance, and was testifying voluntarily for the prosecution.…