State v. Snyder

Appeal from a conviction under section 701.1, Code, 1950, which provides as follows: “If any person, with intent to produce the miscarriage of any woman, willfully administer to her any drug or substance whatever, or, with such intent, use any instrument or other means whatever, unless such miscarriage shall be necessary to save her life, he shall be imprisoned **

The instant indictment was returned on November 20, 1951, and was one of sixteen indictments so returned. Each charged the defendant with violation of section 701.1 and is identical except as to dates and women named therein. Each…