Dixon v. State

Irvine, C.

The plaintiff in error was convicted on an information charging him under section 6, Criminal Code, of having in York county on the 22d day of June, 1893, employed in and upon the body and womb of a woman named in the information a certain instrument with intent unlawfully, willfully, and feloniously to destroy a vitalized embryo— in other words, of producing an abortion. -Several of the assignments of error go in effect to the sufficiency of the evidence, and by considering this question here a detailed consideration of some other assignments will be rendered unnecessary. The…