SHERRON v. STATE

No. 2004-KA-01668-COA.

959 So.2d 30 (2006)

Charlotte SHERRON, Appellant v. STATE of Mississippi, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied April 3, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillip Broadhead, Oxford, Gary Goodwin, Columbus, attorneys for appellant.

Office of the Attorney General by Jose Benjamin Simo, Charles W. Maris, Jackson, attorneys for appellee.

EN BANC.


SOUTHWICK, J., for the Court.

¶ 1. Charlotte Sherron was convicted of being an accessory after the fact to her husband's crime of statutory rape by assisting the victim, who was her minor daughter, obtain an abortion. This assistance helped hide the husband's crime by removing its most obvious evidence.

¶ 2. Since the time of the passage of the parental consent statute for a minor's acquiring an abortion, no prior Mississippi appellate court decision...

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