State v. Briggs
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Indictment against the defendant for procuring an abortion on one Mary Jane Fisher. At the trial of the’indictment before Mr. Justice Burges and a jury, at the March term of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Providence, 1868, a verdict of guilty was returned by the jury, whereupon the defendant alleged exceptions, the substance of which are stated in the opinion of the court.
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Indictment against the defendant for procuring an abortion on one Mary Jane Fisher. At the trial of the’indictment before Mr. Justice Burges and a jury, at the March term of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Providence, 1868, a verdict of guilty was returned by the jury, whereupon the defendant alleged exceptions, the substance of which are stated in the opinion of the court. The defendant’s exception to the admission of the testimony of Edwin A. Hacket should be sustained. A married woman or a married man is incompetent to testify in a suit between others to any matters for which…
1Opinion of the CourtDurfee, J.
The defendant was convicted in the Court of Common Pleas on an indictment for procuring an abortion on one Mary Jane Fisher. The case comes up on a bill of exceptions for alleged erroneous rulings of the court below. The first two exceptions are based on the following grounds, to wit. : That the said Mary Jane Fisher was at the time of the alleged offence a single woman, having never been married ; that she afterwards intermarried with one Edwin A. Hacket; that said Hacket was the person by whom she was got with the child for whose miscarriage she was operated on; that said Hacket em ployed…
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- Doyle v. StevensMichigan Supreme Court · 1856
- State v. DudleyWisconsin Supreme Court · 1859
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