State v. Ryder
Supreme Court of Vermont
Information for wrongfully attempting to procure the miscarriage of a pregnant woman, who died in consequence thereof. Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury at the April Term, 1907, Wind-ham County, Taylor, J., presiding. Verdict, guilty; and judgment thereon. The respondent excepted. The opinion states the case.
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Information for wrongfully attempting to procure the miscarriage of a pregnant woman, who died in consequence thereof. Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury at the April Term, 1907, Wind-ham County, Taylor, J., presiding. Verdict, guilty; and judgment thereon. The respondent excepted. The opinion states the case. The fact that the respondent testified that he wrote a letter to the deceased on the day in the afternoon of which the letter in question was seen in her possession, taken with the coincidence of his acts with the statement in the letter of what the writer would do, tends to show that the…
1Opinion of the CourtRowell, C. J.
This is an information for the statutory crime of employing means with intent to procure the miscarriage of a pregnant woman, the same not being necessary to preserve her'life, and who died in consequence thereof. The prisoner lived in Bellows Palls; the woman, in Proctorsville. The State claimed, and its evidence tended to show, that the deceased arranged with the prisoner by mail for the operation; that he sent her two letters concerning the matter, one of which she received the evening before she went to Bellows Palls to meet him; and that the next morning she burned two letters, one of…
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