Opinion ID: 1306515
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Heading: Decisions Under Law of Origin.

Text: Similar to Burns' Indiana Statutes, § 10-105, to which the following cases apply: Abortion defined.  Causing an unlawful miscarriage of a pregnant woman is an abortion. Hauk v. State, 148 Ind. 238, 46 N.E. 127, 47 N.E. 465. Conviction as principal.  Furnishing medicine to produce an abortion may constitute the offense, though the party was not present when the medicine was administered. McCaughey v. State, 156 Ind. 41, 59 N.E. 169. Corpus delicti.  The offense of abortion is complete if either miscarriage or death results from the use of an instrument with criminal intent. Swanson v. State, 222 Ind. 217, 52 N.E. (2d) 616. Dying declaration.  Dying declaration admissible. Montgomery v. State, 80 Ind. 338, 41 Am. Rep. 815. Indictment.  Different means of producting an abortion may be alleged in separate counts in the indictment. Diehl v. State, 157 Ind. 549, 62 N.E. 51. Manslaughter distinguished.  Where death results it was proper to prosecute hereunder and not for manslaughter. Montgomery v. State, 80 Ind. 338, 41 Am. Rep. 815. § 6-78. Soliciting miscarriage.  Every woman who shall solicit of any person any medicine, drug or substance or thing whatever, and shall take the same, or shall submit to any operation or other means whatever, with intent thereby to procure a miscarriage (except when necessary for the purpose of saving the life of the mother or child), shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars and imprisoned in the county jail not more than six months; and any person who, in any manner whatever, unlawfully aids or assists any such woman to a violation of this section, shall be liable to the same penalty. (Laws 1890, ch. 73, § 32; R.S. 1899, § 4970; C.S. 1910, § 5809; C.S. 1920, § 7087; R.S. 1931, § 32-223; C.S. 1945, § 9-224.) C.J.S. reference.  1 C.J.S. Abortion § 14. § 6-105. Advertising drug or nostrum for procuring abortion or miscarriage.  Whoever prints or publishes any advertisement of any drug or nostrum with intent to obtain utilization of such drug or nostrum for procuring abortion or miscarriage; or sells or gives away, or keeps for sale or gratuitous distribution, any newspaper, circular, pamphlet, or book containing such advertisement, or any account or description, of such drug or nostrum with intent to obtain utilization of such drugs or nostrum to procure abortion or miscarriage, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars, to which may be added imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months. (Laws 1890, ch. 73, § 83; R.S. 1899, § 5063; C.S. 1910, § 5913; C.S. 1920, § 7202; R.S. 1931, § 32-520; C.S. 1945, § 9-515; Laws 1969, ch. 32, § 9.) The 1969 amendment so changed this section that a detailed comparison is not here practicable.