State v. Bates

The appellant was convicted on two counts of aiding and abetting the commission of the crime of abortion, and was sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary on each count, the sentences to run concurrently. One Ann Bates, a nurse, who was jointly charged and tried with him, was also convicted but has not appealed.

It is first urged by the appellant that the information was insufficient to apprise him of the nature of the offense with which he was charged, in that it failed to state just what he had done to “counsel, encourage, hire, procure, aid or abet the principal.”

The charging…