The People v. Davis

The defendant, Lou E. Davis, a regularly licensed physician and surgeon, was indicted in the criminal court of Cook county for the murder of Gertrude Gaesswitz by means of an abortion. She was found guilty by a jury and her punishment was fixed at fourteen years imprisonment in the penitentiary. Motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment were made and denied. The defendant prosecutes this writ of error.

Louis Gaesswitz and Gertrude Gaesswitz, his wife, twenty-seven years of age, had been married for seven years and lived in the city of Chicago. She had given birth to three children,…