State v. Horwitz

The defendant was convicted of the crime of abortion. He has appealed from the refusal of the trial court to set the verdict aside as against the evidence. If the jury believed the chief witness for the State, Beck, as it obviously did, the verdict was inevitable. Beck had himself been convicted of the very crime with which the defendant was charged and was serving a sentence for it, and on his testimony he confessed not merely to being an accessory to it but also to having repeatedly committed perjury upon his own trial. Nevertheless the jury were entitled to accept his evidence upon the…