Jones v. State

The appellant was convicted of abortion. The testimony of the prosecuting witness as to pregnancy — an essential element of the' offense, Code (1951) Art. 27, Sec'. 3 — was somewhat vague, and to the State, evidently insufficient. At the first trial of the charge, the jury failed to agree. At the second trial the State sought to prove the pregnancy, as it had in the first, by the records of the Peninsula General Hospital in Salisbury where the victim had been treated after the abortion. At the time of her treatment, Dr. I. Rivers Hanson was m charge of the department of obstetrics and…