Baker v. People

At the March term, 1882, of the Whiteside circuit court, Clarence B.aker and Eliza Graves'were indicted by the grand jury, tried, and convicted of the' crime of attempting to procure and produce the miscarriage of Martha Van Antwerp, an unmarried woman, then pregnant with child, of the age of about nineteen years. Motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment having been severally overruled, they were duly sentenced by the court, in pursuance of the verdict of the jury, to the penitentiary for a period of two years. Baker alone brings the case here' on error, and assigns various reasons…