Basoff v. State

This appeal was brought here by Barnett Basoff, a resident of Atlantic City, New Jersey, from his conviction by the Criminal Court of Baltimore on an indictment charging that in October, 1954, he unlawfully used means for the purpose of causing an abortion upon a woman named Margaret Ann Thomas. Code 1951, art. 27, sec. 3.

At the time of the trial in February, 1955, Mrs. Thomas, a waitress, 24 years old, had been separated from her husband, Clinton E. Thomas, for nearly a year and a half. She lived with her sister and her sister’s husband in an apartment at 827 North Eutaw Street. She…