WRIGHT v. STATE

No. 44882.

351 So.2d 708 (1977)

Verdell WRIGHT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida.

October 14, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore Klein, of Fine, Jacobson, Block & Semet, Miami, for appellant.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee and C. Marie Bernard, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.


BOYD, Acting Chief Justice.

We have before us a challenge to the constitutional validity of parts of Section 458.22, Florida Statutes, the statute that regulates abortions in Florida.

Verdell Wright, a nurse registered in Florida, was charged by information filed in the Circuit Court, Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, in and for Broward County, with the unlawful termination of a pregnancy resulting in the pregnant woman's death, a felony of the second degree,...

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