State ex rel. Jarvo v. Judge of Criminal District Court

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Todd, J.

The relator was convicted of an offense declared in the third section of an act.approved 22d February, 1817—the title of said act being: “An act supplementary to an act for the punishment of primes', and misdemeanors.” The act to which it was supplementary being an act of May 4, 1805.

The section referred to reads as follows:

“That if any woman shall be delivered of any issue of her body, and shall endeavor privately, either by drowning or secret burying thereof, *579or in any other way, either by herself or with the aid and assistance of others, so…