Aiken v. People

John W. Aiken, the plaintiff in error, was indicted at the May term, 1899, of the circuit court of McDonough county, for the crime of murder in producing an abortion upon one Hattie Reece, from the effects of which she died. The indictment contained several counts, in two of which it was alleged the miscarriage was produced by the use of certain instruments the name and description of which were to the grand jurors unknown; two alleged the administering of certain noxious and “abortifacient” drugs to the grand jurors unknown; while the last, or fifth, count alleg'ed the miscarriage was…