State v. Evans

Lovnsrs, Judge:

F. E. Evans, a practicing physician and surgeon, was indicted in the Intermediate Court of Kanawha County, West Virginia, and was tried, convicted, and sentenced in that court of the crime of procuring an abortion on the body of an unmarried female, hereinafter referred to as “prosecutrix”. He prosecutes a writ of error to this Court.

On or about the first day of January, 1949, the prosecu-trix, a student in a Kanawha County high school, between seventeen and eighteen years of age, conceived a child. Realizing her condition on or about March 23, 1949, she interviewed the…