State v. Peacock
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court'for Wahkiakum county, Rice, J., entered April 10, 1909, upon a trial and conviction of manslaughter.
1Opinion of the CourtParker, J.
The defendant, a practicing physician, is accused of the crime of manslaughter. The facts charged against him are, in substance, that on the 27th day of November, 1908, he unlawfully employed an instrument on the person of Madeline Longtain, she being then pregnant, with intent to thereby produce a miscarriage, the same not being necessary to preserve her life, and did then and there produce a miscarriage upon the person of Madeline Longtain, and by said operation and ‘miscarriage he inflicted upon her person mortal injuries from which she died on the 10th day of December, 1908. .Upon a plea…
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