Webster v. State

OPINION

OLIVER, Judge.

Plaintiff in error, referred to herein as defendant, was convicted by a jury upon an indictment predicated upon T.C.A. § 39-301, in which she was charged with unlawfully and feloniously performing an abortion upon Kathryn Clayborn. The jury fixed her punishment at not more than one and one-half years in the penitentiary. The trial judge approved the verdict and entered judgment accordingly. That statute is as follows:

“39-301. Criminal abortion — Penalty.—Every person who shall administer to any woman pregnant with child, whether such child be quick or not, any medicine,…