Bassett v. State

—The appellant was indicted in the Marion Criminal Circuit Court for attempting to procure an aboi'tion. There are two counts in the indictment. One charges that the appellant did, on a day named, etc., unlawfully and wilfully employ a certain instrument, naming it, upon the body of Jennie Gerry, who was then and thei'e a pregnant woman, by then and there inserting it into the uterus of the said Jennie *304Gerry, and passing it about the fcetus, and attempting to break its attachment's to the womb, with intent, then and there and thereby, to produce the miscarriage of the said Jennie Gerry, “the…