State v. Barrett

I. Appellant was indicted, tried, and convicted in the court below of the crime of attempting to produce an abortion by the administration of a drug or substance commonly known as the fluid extract of cotton-root bark. Four propositions are stated by counsel for reversal: (1) That there is no competent proof that prosecutrix was pregnant, or of a miscarriage; (2) that there is no proof that the drug or substance administered *770was an abortive; (3) that there was misconduct of the county attorney in the cross-examination of one of appellant’s witnesses; and (4) that the motion for a new…