Rhodes v. State

The indictment upon which the appellant was convicted charges him with having feloniously introduced an instrument into the womb of a pregnant woman with the intent to produce a miscarriage.

The appellant’s counsel insist that the court erred in overruling the motion to quash the indictment, and allege several objections, but all of them are without substantial merit. It is said that the indictment is bad because it does not show that the woman miscarried or died, but this point is not supported by the record, for it does appear that there was a miscarriage and death. Good pleading does not…