People v. Singer

Convicted of two counts of abortion (Pen. Code, § 274) committed March 10, 1961, upon Marilyn Carrico and Judy Breazeale, respectively, defendant appeals from the judgment and attempts to appeal from certain orders hereinafter mentioned. His codefendant Lynne Holzman pleaded guilty and testified for the prosecution.

Viewing the evidence most favorably to respondents, as we must (People v. Daugherty, 40 Cal.2d 876, 885 [256 P.2d 911]; People v. Sweeney, 55 Cal.2d 27, 33 [9 Cal.Rptr. 793, 357 P.2d 1049]), the story is as follows.

Miss Marilyn Carrico, suspecting herself to be pregnant because she…