Territory v. Young and Nozawa

The defendants were indicted jointly and upon a joint trial were convicted of the crimes of abortion and mnrder in the second degree. The offenses charged are based upon the same transaction and are alleged in separate counts. The within joint writ of error presents for review the judgment entered upon the verdict.

Upon arraignment the defendant Nozawa interposed a demurrer to the second count of the indictment, which charged murder in the second degree upon the single ground that the allegations thereof did not state facts sufficient to constitute the crime of murder in the second degree as…