People v. Karcher

After preliminary examination defendant was bound over to circuit court for trial on a charge of securing an abortion. Prom an order of the circuit court granting defendant’s motion, before trial, to dismiss for lack of probable cause the people appeal.

Testimony taken before the magistrate shows substantially the following: The complaining witness had been pregnant about two months; she entered a hospital in great pain and distress; X-ray pictures disclosed a metal catheter extending' through the uterus into her abdomen; doctors called upon to attend her operated and removed the catheter; her…