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76 Mo. 96

State v. White

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided October 15, 1882

Supreme Court of Missouri · decided 1882-10-15

—Hon. J. E. Ryland, Judge.. The indictment charged that the defendant “on the 1st day of January, 1882, being then and there pregnant and big with a female child, was then and there delivered of said female child, and being so delivered of the said female child, did, on the said 1st day of January, 1882, at, etc., unlawfully, feloniously, knowingly and willfully endeavor privately to conceal the birth of said female child by secretly exposing and subjecting the body of the…

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Aeeiemed · Decided 1882-10-15

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Hough, J.

¶1The defendant was indicted under section 1252 of the Revised Statutes for endeavoring privately to conceal the birth of a child of which she was delivered, so that it could not be known whether it was born alive or not, and was convicted and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary.

¶2The indictment follows the language of the statute and is sufficient. No specific intent need be alleged, and it is wholly immaterial whether the child was still-born or not.

¶3No material error was committed by the court in the admission or rejection.of testimony, and none in giving or refusing instructions, and the judgment will be affirmed.

All concur.
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