People v. Kirby

On the evening of July 4, 1921, Dr. Charles S. Lane was called to attend Alice Kirby, defendant’s daughter. He made an examination which satisfied him that she was about to become a mother, which information he immediately imparted to her mother. There was conversation between the doctor and defendant relative to delaying the operations of nature until Alice could be gotten away. The doctor administered a hypodermic to Alice with the idea that nature might be delayed and Alice could be removed. *441The doctor returned to his office for his instruments. He made a second physical examination which…