Smith v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder by abortion; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

Appellant was a midwife and a licensed nurse. According to the testimony of Clarence Patterson, a son of the deceased, Gorie Davis, the home of appellant was about a quarter of a mile from that of the deceased. The witness Clarence Patter son was 12 years of age and was in the sixth grade. According to the testimony of Melvia Patterson, a witness for the State, and a daughter of the deceased, it was a mile from deceased’^ home to that of the appellant. The witness was 11 years old…