State v. Emerich

The indictment charges that defendant, at St. Louis, on December 30, 1877, made an assault upon the body of one Maggie Gibbons, then and there pregnant and “big with child,” and then and there unlawfully and feloniously used and employed upon her womb an instrument of hard substance by forcing it int® her womb with the intent to procure an abortion or the miscarriage of said Maggie Gibbons, the same not being necessary to preserve her life nor advised by a physician to be necessary for that purpose; that by means and in consequence of said employment of said instrument by defendant upon the…