State v. Lorenzo

The defendant Peter Lorenzo was tried and found guilty by a jury in the superior court upon an indictment charging him with having committed an abortion upon the body of Blanche I. Gilman. Thereafter the trial justice denied the defendant's motion for a new trial and the case is before us upon his exceptions to that ruling, to the denial of his motion for a directed verdict, and to other rulings made during the course of the trial.

The following is a brief summary of certain facts appearing in the evidence: Defendant lived in the town of Johnston and maintained an office in the city of…