People v. Schultz-Knighten

Dr. Anna B. Schultz-Knighten was convicted in the criminal court of Cook county of the murder of Flossie Emerson by performing an abortion on her and has sued out a writ of error to reverse the judgment. She is a colored woman. Flossie Emerson was a colored woman about twenty-three years old and a prostitute. Most of the witnesses who testified directly to facts implicating the ■plaintiff in error were colored prostitutes or their associates,some of whom had served one term or more in the peniteri-tiary. The prosecution rests largely on the testimony of one such witness, Minnie Shouse, which…