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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Julius Hammer, Appellant.
    
      Crimes — manslaughter — abortion — conviction for manslaughter in first degree affirmed.
    
    
      People v. Hammer, 194 App. Div. 712, affirmed.
    (Argued November 30, 1921;
    decided December 16, 1921.)
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the . Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered January 14, 1921, which affirmed a judgment of the Bronx County Court rendered upon a verdict convicting the defendant, a physician, of the crime of manslaughter in the first degree in causing the death of a woman through an operation intended to bring on a miscarriage.
    
      Francis M. Scott for appellant.
    
      Manning Stires and Bernard S. Barron, amici curiae.
    
    
      Edward J. Glennon, District Attorney {Albert Cohn and William F. Quigley of counsel), for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed; no opinion.

Concur: His cock, Ch. J., Cardozo, Pound and Andrews, JJ. Dissent: McLaughlin and Crane, JJ. Not voting: Hogan, J.