On criminal abortion in America

by Horatio Robinson Storer

[245] 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.)

[246] Report on the Medico-legal duties of Coroner. 1857.

[247] Radford, British Record of Obstetric Medicine, vol. i. p. 55.

[248] Wharton, Criminal Law, 540.

[249] Smith vs. The State, 33 Maine, (3 Red.) 48.

[250] Rex vs. Phillips; Regina vs. Goodall; Reg. vs. Haynes, etc.

[251] Taylor, Med. Jurisprudence, p. 386.

[252] Percival, Medical Ethics, p. 84.

[253] Ibid., p. 85.

[254] Loc. cit., article 317.