State v. Jackson

— The grand jury for Lawrence county, at the November term, 1916, of the Lawrence Circuit Court returned into that court an indictment in four counts against appellant and one Spencer Smith, charging them jointly with the crimes defined by §§2256, 2647 Burns 1914, Acts 1905 p. 584, §§367, 641. Section 2256 reads as follows: “Whoever prescribes or administers to any pregnant woman, or to any woman whom he supposes to be pregnant, any drug, medicine or substance whatever, with intent thereby to procure the miscarriage of such woman, or with like intent, uses or suggests, directs or advises the…