BASOFF v. STATE

[No. 77, October Term, 1955.]

208 Md. 643 (1956)

119 A.2d 917

BASOFF v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 12, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles J. Stinchcomb, with whom were Fred Oken and Joseph Rosenthal on the brief, for appellant.

James H. Norris, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, with whom were C. Ferdinand Sybert, Attorney General, Anselm Sodaro, State's Attorney of Baltimore City, and John C. Weiss, Assistant State's Attorney, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and DELAPLAINE, COLLINS, HENDERSON and HAMMOND, JJ.


DELAPLAINE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal was brought here by Barnett Basoff, a resident of Atlantic City, New Jersey, from his conviction by the Criminal Court of Baltimore on an indictment charging that in October, 1954, he unlawfully used means for the purpose of causing an abortion upon a woman named Margaret Ann Thomas. Code 1951, art. 27, sec. 3.

At the time of the trial in February, 1955, Mrs. Thomas, a waitress, 24 years old,...

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