State v. Weiss

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.

Louis Weiss, herein called the defendant, was indicted and convicted of the crime of abortion. N. J. S. A. 2:105-1.(b.). The ease is before us on a certificate of the entire record of proceedings at the trial, pursuant to N. J. S. A. 2:195-16.

The indictment charges that the defendant and one George E. Harley on July 20th, 1940, at Newark “maliciously and without lawful justification, with intent to cause and procure the miscarriage of Rose Castellitto, a woman then pregnant with child, did use in and upon the said Rose Castellitto divers…