This section is from the book "Popular Law Library Vol10 Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Wills, Administration", by Albert H. Putney. Also available from Amazon: Popular Law-Dictionary.
Evidence of different attempts at about the same time to produce a miscarriage on the same woman is admissible as parts of the same transaction.11 The fact of pregnancy by illicit intercourse may be shown, and the fact that at the time of the act the woman was an inmate of a house of ill-fame.12
4 Slattery vs. People, 76 111., 217, 219; Hughes' Cr. Law, Sec. 1915.
5 State vs. Slagle, 82 N. C, 65. 6 Hughes' Cr. Law, Sec. 1918.
7 Com. vs. Follansbee, 155 Mass., 274; State vs. Owens, 22
Minn., 238, Contra People vs. Jossely, 39 Cal., 393.
8 Com. vs. Snow, 116 Mass., 47.
9 Hatchford vs. State, 79 Wis., 357.
10 2 McClain Cr. Law, Sec. 1147.
11 2 McClain Cr. Law, Sec. 1151.
 
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