Abbott v. Superior Court

This petitioner is one of the eighteen defendants joined in the indictment attacked in Stern v. Superior Court, (ante, p. 9 [177 P.2d 308]). He is an attorney at law and acted as his codefendant Stern’s attorney from September, 1944. On his motion to quash the indictment counts 2, 4, and 5 were ordered quashed as to him.

The evidence as to this defendant shows that he visited Stern’s place of business in Oakland and was present in his operating room immediately after an abortion had been performed and that he sent a pregnant woman to Stern for the purpose of having Stern perform an abortion…