Winfrey v. State

Appellant was convicted and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary and to pay a fine of $10 on a charge of abortion, under an indictment which, omitting formal parts, reads as follows:

“The said Gordon Winfrey, in the county, district and State aforesaid, on the 20th day of January, 1925, did willfully, unlawfully and feloniously administer and prescribe to one Eithel Volentine, a woman with a child, before the period of quickening, drugs and medicines, with the willful, unlawful and felonious intent then and there and thereby to procure an abortion.”

From the judgment and sentence against…