 | Illinois - 1874 - 418 pages
...faith, interferes to protect the child from abuse or cruel treatment. ABORTION. § 3. Producing. — Whoever, by means of any instrument, medicine, drug...life, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one year nor more than ten years ; or if the death of the mother results therefrom, the person... | |
 | Illinois - 1874 - 1270 pages
...faith, interferes to protect the child from abuse or cruel treatment. ABORTION. 3. PRODUCING.] §3. rring any indebtedness, less than one year nor more than ten years; or if the death of the mother results therefrom, the person... | |
 | William Wirt Virgin - 1874 - 672 pages
...child is quick or not, any medicine, drug, or other substance, or uses any instrument or other means, unless the same were done as necessary for the preservation of the mother's life, shall be punished, if done with intent to destroy such child, and thereby it was destroyed before birth, by... | |
 | Ira M. Moore - 1876 - 920 pages
...misdemeanor.8 § 378. Provisions of the Statute as to Procuring Abortions. — Our statute provides that " whoever, by means of any instrument, medicine, drug...or miscarry, or attempts to procure or produce an abortion4 or miscarriage,8 unless the same were done as necessary for the preservation of the mother's... | |
 | Jacob Conrad Davis - 1879 - 698 pages
...degree. See title, " Murder," " Abortion." STATUTE CONSTRUED. Under the Illinois Statute which reads, "Whoever, by means of any instrument, medicine, drug,...child, to abort or miscarry, or attempts to procure an abortion or miscarriage, &c.," Rev. Statute, 1874, page 352, it was held that under a charge " that... | |
 | 1879 - 550 pages
...difficulty and oue not altogether free from doubt. The law makes the producing of a miscarriage a crime ' unless the same were done as necessary for the preservation of the mother's life.' Undoubtedly the general rule is, where an act is made criminal, with exceptions embraced in the same... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1881 - 634 pages
...(y) On the above counts, it was held in Illinois, that the exception in the statute, providing that "unless the same were done as necessary for the preservation of the mother's life," was sufficiently negatived. Beasley v. People, 89 1ll. 571. (a) If upon view of the child, it be testified... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - 1885 - 1126 pages
...will be noticed. The section of the statute under which the indictment was found is as follows : " Whoever, by means of any instrument, medicine, drug,...child to abort or miscarry, or attempts to procure an abortion or miscarriage, etc., shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one year nor... | |
 | Illinois - 1887 - 2194 pages
...luilli, interferes to protect the child from abuse or cruel treatment. ABORTION. 3. Producing. § 3. Whoever, by means of any instrument, medicine, drug...life, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one year nor more than ten years ; or if the death of the mother results therefrom, the person... | |
 | 1888 - 448 pages
...however, changes this rule and makes it a felony, the provision of our statute being as follows: " Whoever by means of any instrument, medicine, drug,...life, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one year nor more ten years, or if the death of the mother results therefrom, the person... | |
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Whoever, by means of any instrument, medicine, drug or other means whatever, causes any woman, pregnant with child, to abort or miscarry, or attempts to procure or produce an abortion or miscarriage, unless the same were done as necessary for the preservation... 
