Commonwealth v. Felgoise

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

The appellant in this case was convicted of perform ing a criminal operation on Edna Mendys, an unmarried girl, 19 years of age.

The appellant’s first contention in this appeal is that the Commonwealth failed to prove by competent evidence the corpus delicti.

Dr. Wadsworth, the coroner’s physician, who made a post mortem examination on the body of Edna Mendys on February 18, 1935, the day after her death, testified for the Commonwealth that the deceased had been pregnant and that her uterus had been emptied; that the opening of the uterus appeared to be of the type…