State v. Davis

Given, President:

DeWayne F. Davis, a physician and surgeon, was indicted by a grand jury of the Intermediate Court of Kanawha County. The indictment charged that the defendant, “did feloniously counsel, hire, procure, aid and abet” two women whose names were unknown to the grand jury, in the commission of a criminal abortion upon the body of a girl of the age of sixteen years.

The jury returned a verdict finding him guilty as charged in the indictment. After overruling a motion to set aside the verdict and a motion in arrest of judgment, the Intermediate Court of Kanawha County sentenced him…