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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