People v. Gibson

The defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison for the term of twenty years. This appeal is from the judgment and from an order denying defendant's motion for a new trial.

On July 26, 1916, Mrs. Madeline C. Silveria, realizing that she was about to die as the result of an operation for abortion performed upon her by the defendant, made a dying declaration in which she stated that the defendant performed an abortion on her on July 4, 1916, and then added: "He told me he had not lost a case in thirty years, and now I am dying, now I…