Court Opinion

ID: 9825432
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 12:56:32.034527+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:40:47.947964
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On Rehearing.
Courts take judicial notice that the-usual period of pregnancy is a.rule of nature subject to many exceptions covering a period from 220 to 330 days. During this period a fully developed child may be naturally born,, depending on heredity, age, and the physical condition of the mother. This rule is universally agreed to by all the standard works on Obstetrics, such as De Lee, p. 112; Parvin. p. 210; Van Wiekel, Volkmanns Klin, N. F. 1901, p. 293; Handbook d. Geb. vol. 1, p. 652. Of this rule, generally known of all men having a knowledge of the subject, courts-take judicial notice. 23 Corpus Juris, 148. The foregoing being the law and the prosecutrix having by her testimony fixed the time-of pregnancy within a natural period, evidence of an attempted or suggested abortion by defendant was relevant. Johns v. State, 20 Ala. App. 269, 101 So. 513; Whatley v. State, 19 Ala. App. 282, 97 So. 121; McMahan v. State, 21 Ala. App. 522, 109 So. 553.
Opinion extended, and ai>plication is overruled.