RICHARDSON v. COMMONWEALTH


312 S.W.2d 470 (1958)

Cecile RICHARDSON, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied May 16, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Clarke Otte, Frank E. Haddad, Jr., Louisville, for appellant.

Jo M. Ferguson, Atty. Gen., Edward L. Fossett, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


MONTGOMERY, Judge.

Appellant, Cecile Richardson, was convicted of the offense of abortion. KRS 436.020(2). She was sentenced to six years in the state reformatory. On appeal, she urges that: (1) Evidence obtained from her home by a search warrant was admitted improperly; (2) the whole law of the case was not given; (3) a mistrial should have been declared because certain inflammatory newspaper articles were available to the jury during the trial; and (4) the prosecuting...

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