State v. Gedicke

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Scudder, J.

The indictment in this case, found under section 75 of the act for the punishment of crimes, charges that the defendant did maliciously and without lawful justification, administer, prescribe for, advise and direct one S. S., then and there being pregnant with child, to take and swallow certaiu poisons, drugs, medicines and noxious things, with intent then and there to cause and procure the miscarriage of the said S. S., contrary to the form of the statute, &c.

The second count charges the use of certain instruments and means, with like…