Edge v. State

The plaintiff in error was convicted as an accessary before the fact to the crime of murder in the second degree, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of ten years.

It is insisted the trial judge erred in not quashing the indictment, for the reason it showed no offense committed by the plaintiff in error in the State of Tennessee. The indictment charged that “one E. A. Reed, a physician, on the-day of December, 1905, in the town of Asheville, county of Buncombe, State of North Carolina, by means of drugs and chemicals, did commit a criminal abortion upon…