Commonwealth v. Hamel

The defendant was found guilty upon an indictment charging that she did unlawfully use a certain instrument upon the body of Elizabeth Bobbins with the intent to procure a miscarriage, which resulted in the death of said Bobbins. One Frosti was tried with the defendant as an accessory before the fact, and was found guilty.

The jury could have found on the evidence that the defendant occupied a house in Springfield and had at least two rooms therein for the care of the sick; that she had cared for women recuperating from miscarriages; that Frosti, who had been intimate with the Bobbins girl,…