Gray v. State

Appellant was indicted, and convicted of abortion. Prior to the Act of March 20, 1907, amending article 1071 (641) of our Penal Code, the offense of abortion, as applicable to this case, was thus defined: If any person shall designedly use toward a pregnant woman with her consent any violence, or means whatever, externally or internally applied and shall thereby procure an abortion, he shall be punished, etc. Said Act of 1907, re-enacted said article, making no change therein applicable hereto, except it added a separate paragraph in these words:

"By the term `abortion' is meant that the life…