Commonwealth v. Longwell

Opinion by

Porter, J.,

The indictment upon which the defendant was tried contained two counts; the first count charging, in formal legal phrase, that he did administer to a woman named, then pregnant with child, a certain drug and substance, *71with intent thereby to procure the miscarriage of her, the said woman, and the second count charged the use of an instrument, upon the said woman, with like intent. The trial resulted in a verdict of guilty upon the first count and not guilty upon the second count of the indictment, and the court imposed the sentence warranted by the verdict. The defendant…