State v. . Powell

The defendant was convicted at September Term, 1920, of Harnett County Superior Court, Hon. W. A. Devin, judge presiding, and from the .judgment, upon such conviction, appealed to this Court.

The statute upon which the indictment is based is section 4226 of the Consolidated Statutes. So far as material to this appeal it is as follows: “If any person shall willfully prescribe for any woman, either pregnant or quick with child, or advise or procure any such woman to take any medicine, drug or substance whatever, with intent thereby to destroy such child,. unless the same shall have been…