State v. Vawter

— This is an indictment for administering medicine to produce miscarriage, &c. The charge in the indictment is, “that the defendant, on, &c., at, &c., did feloniously, •wilfully, and unlawfully, administer to one Lucinda Hill, then and there being pregnant with a child, a large quantity of medicine with intent thereby feloniously, &c., to procure the miscarriage of said Imcinda Hill, the administering said medicine to said Lucinda Hill not then and there being necessary to preserve the life of said Lucinda Hill, contrary to the statute,” &c.

The Circuit Court quashed the indictment.

The…