People v. . Hawker
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, which reversed a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace for the city and county of New York convicting the defendant of a smidemeanor.
1Opinion of the CourtHaight, J.
The defendant was indicted in the Court of General Sessions of the Peace for a misdemeanor, charging that on the 6th day of March in the year 1878 the defendant was convicted in the Court of Sessions of Kings county of the crime of abortion, upon which he was sentenced to be imprisoned in the penitentiary for Kings county for the term of ten years. That afterwards and on the 22d day of February, 1896, at the city of New York, he did unlawfully practice medicine by examining, treating and prescribing for one Dora Hoenig against the form of the statute in such case made and provided. To this…
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