Court Opinion

ID: 9564775
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 19:06:51.682566+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:18:39.680955
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Duckworth, Chief Justice,
dissenting. I dissent from the judgment of affirmance since no action to obtain relief in the courts of this State can be maintained for a wrong growing out of an immoral or illegal transaction whether malum prohibitum or malum in se. See Jones v. Dinkins, 209 Ga. 808 (1) (76 SE2d 489), and citations contained therein. Regardless of whether or not the female who participated in the illegal *375abortion upon her person is made guilty of a crime, her action in aiding and abetting the commission of the same and then bringing an action for relief from injury resulting therefrom causes her to come into court with unclean hands, and the court should leave the parties where it finds them.