Part 31

The State vs. Cooper, 2 ZABRISKIE, 52; HANES, U. S. Digest, 5.

The Commonwealth vs. Parker, 9 METCALF, 263; The Commonwealth vs. Bangs, 9 Mass., 387; The State vs. Cooper, 2 ZABRISKIE, 57; HANES, U. S. Digest, 5; Smith vs. State, 33 MAINE, (3 RED.) 48.

BISHOP, Crim. Law, 386; Mills vs. The Commonw., 1 HARRIS, Pa., 631, 633.

WHARTON, Crim. Law of the U. S., 537.

1 RUSSELL, Crimes, 661; 1 VESEY, 86; 3 COKE, Inst., 50; 1 HAWKINS, c. 13, s. 16; BRACTON, 1. 3, c. 21.

BAC. Ab., tit. Infants.

2 VERNON, 710.

Doe vs. Clark, 2 H. Bl., 399; 2 VESEY, jr., 673; Thellusson vs. Woodford, 4 VESEY, 340; Swift vs. Duffield, 6 SERG. & RAWLE, 38.

FEARNE, 429.

2 VERNON, 710; The Commonwealth vs. Demain, 6 Penn. Law Journ., 29; BRIGHTLY, 441.

1 HALE, 90; The Commonw. vs. Chauncey, 1 ASHMEAD, 227; Smith vs. State, 33 MAINE, (3 RED.) 48.

Ibid.; HANES, U. S. Digest, 5.

WHARTON, Law of Homicide, 44.

The Commonw. vs. Parker, 9 METCALF, 263, 265; DAVIS, Crim. Justice, 281.

1 BLACKSTONE, 129; Rex vs. Senior, 1 MOODY, C. C., 346; 3 Inst., 50; WHARTON, C. L., 537; Ibid., Law of Homicide, 93.

Rex vs. West, 2 CARR. & KIR., 784; 1 BISHOP, C. L., 255; WHARTON, Law of Homicide, 93.

Rex vs. Scudder, 1 MOODY, 216, 3 CAR. & P., 605, overruling Rex vs. Phillips, 3 CAMPBELL, 73; RUSSELL, Cr., 763, note.

If made without her consent?

Regina vs. Goodchild, 2 CAR. & KIR., 293; Rex vs. Goodhall, 1 DEN. C. C., 187; 3 CAMPBELL, 76.

1 BISHOP, Crim. Law, 518.

1 BISHOP, Crim. Law, 385.

WHARTON, Crim. Law, 541.

1 HARRIS, Pa., 631, 633.

LEE, Note to Guy’s Principles of Forensic Medicine, p. 134.

BECCARIA, Crimes and Punishments, 104.

“An efficient, and practical remedy for the prevention of this crime would be a law requiring the causes of death to be certified by the physician in attendance, or where there has been no physician, by one called in for the purpose. In this way the cause of death, both in infants and mothers, could be traced to attempts to procure abortion. In three cases which occurred in Boston, in 1855, the death was reported by friends to be owing to natural causes, and in each it was subsequently ascertained that the patient died in consequence of injuries received in procuring abortion. It is probable that such cases are by no means rare; and if the cause of death were known, an immediate investigation might lead to the detection of the guilty party.” (Boston Med. and Surg. Journal, Dec., 1857, p. 365.)

Register of the Morgue.

From 1846 to 1850, 188 cases of criminal abortion were discovered in Paris, but for want of proof, only 22 of them were sent to trial. (Comptes Rendus Ann. de la Justice Criminelle.)