State v. French

Convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, defendant appeals from the judgment. The death of a young woman is charged by the indictment to have been the result of an unlawful operation by defendant for the purpose of procuring an abortion. He is accused of having operated on the deceased May 27, 1925. The evidence, when the state rested, had fixed that date but it had been indicated that there might be a change to the 19th or 20th of May, 1925, as the date of the offense. The defendant had not gone far with his own evidence when the state asked leave to reopen its case for the purpose of…