Yoshizawa v. Hewitt

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

PERRY, C. J.

The petitioner is a duly licensed physician and surgeon. Notice was served upon him to appear before the board of health of the Territory to answer the following charges: that “wilfully and without lawful justification or excuse,” he “did procure, aid or abet in procuring a criminal abortion and/or miscarriage by and upon the body of one Gladys Manley and upon the body of one Esther Hartig;” that “through lack of skill, or neglect to apply it if possessed,” he “did treat one Gladys Manley and one Esther Hartig for a suspected, threatened abor tion, in a…