FLETCHER v. STATE

No. 35052.

362 S.W.2d 845 (1962)

John Edward FLETCHER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

December 5, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Edward Fletcher, appellant, pro se.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Carl E. F. Dally and J. R. Musslewhite, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is abortion; the punishment, 3 years.

The female named in the indictment testified that she was 26 years old and had four children; that she had been separated from her husband for more than a year. She contacted appellant on Thursday, around the 21st of October, 1961, for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.

Dr. James T. Ainsworth testified that he examined the prosecutrix on September 21, 1961, to determine...

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