People v. Marshall

The proof in support of the charge that the defendant-appellant committed abortion is clearly presented and wholly uncontradicted in the record.

The testimony of the woman subjected to the abortion was that after paying $60 to the codefendant Benjamin, who was also convicted but does not appeal, she was taken by that defendant to appellant Marshall’s premises and a tube was inserted by appellant in the vagina.

The tube was later removed at a hospital. The patient was acutely ill when she reached the hospital, was bleeding from the vagina, and was in shock; the medical evidence is that she was…