State v. McCurtain

The defendants were jointly charged with having produced an abortion upon a young unmarried woman, hereinafter called the prosecutrix. They were 'jointly tried and convicted, and appeal.

The statute under which the conviction was had (Comp. Laws 1907, section 4226) is as follows:

“Every person who provides, supplies, or administers to any pregnant woman, or procures any such woman to take any medicine, drug, or substance, or uses or employs any instrument or other means whatever, with intent thereby to procure the miscarriage of such woman, unless the same is necessary to preserve her life, is…