State v. Gilmore

The defendant is accused of having caused' .the death of Gertrude Jackson by committing an abortion on her, not necessary to save her life. She was unmarried, about twenty-five years of age, and died July 14, 1909, *620Rulings under which evidence of her acts and declarations,’ not in the presence of defendant, was received are assigned as errors. These evidently were based on the theory that she had entered into an arrangement with the accused to cause a miscarriage, and, of course, if this were shown, whatever she may have done or said in promotion of the unlawful enterprise while it was…