People v. Flaherty

Defendant has been convicted in Livingston county of the crime of manslaughter in the first degree. He was charged with causing the death of one Clara Hagan, which resulted from a criminal operation, alleged to have been performed on the person of said woman by defendant for the purpose of procuring an abortion. (See Penal Law, §§ 80, 1050.)

The indictment charged that to accomplish this result defendant supplied and administered to the young woman drugs and medicines, and that he also used an instrument on said Clara Hagan with intent to procure a miscarriage, and that she died from the…