People v. Hodge
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to recorder’s court of Detroit; Murphy, J. Scott E. Hodge was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to imprisonment in the Michigan Reformatory at Ionia for not less than six and not more than nine years.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
The respondent, charged with the offense of manslaughter in an attempt to produce an abortion, was convicted, and has appealed. The alleged errors are grouped, and raised three legal questions:
1. Whether certain questions asked witnesses for the prosecution were leading, and so prejudicial as to call for a reversal of the case.
2. Whether it was error to permit a witness to testify that the defendant had made indecent proposals to her while he was giving her medical treatment.
3. Whether it was error to permit the prosecution to show that respondent had on one occasion, before the act for which…
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