Clarke v. People

Plaintiff in error, Dr. Uri S. Clarke, was convicted in the criminal court of Arapahoe county of producing an abortion upon a young unmarried woman. There are nearly three hundred folios of evidence certified to this court in the bill of exceptions. Much of this evidence is entirely irrelevant to the issue. Beyond showing that a miscarriage had taken place from the effects of • which death ensued, and that plaintiff in error was the sole attending physician at the time of the abortion and for some time prior and subsequent thereto, but little appears to cast suspicion upon his conduct, while…