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PARNELL v. STATE

No. 29245.

312 S.W.2d 506 (1958)

L. D. PARNELL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 12, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sam B. Spence, Wichita Falls, Allen, Johnson & Cherry, by Z. D. Allen, Wichita Falls, for appellant.

L. T. Wilson, Dist. Atty., William Browning, Asst. Dist. Atty., Wichita Falls, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is abortion; the punishment, two years.

The State's theory, supported by its evidence, is that the 14 year old Negro girl was taken to a Doctor Jackson by her grandmother. Dr. Jackson found that she was pregnant, and found no symptoms to indicate anything other than a normal pregnancy.

Before going to Dr. Jackson the girl had attempted to abort herself with a pen staff. After her examination by Dr. Jackson she took hot ginger...

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