Supreme Court of Virginia, 1981

Published opinions from 1981. The case name opens the case page.

1981 opinions

VirginiaChris Simopoulos, M.D. v. Commonwealth of Virginia

April 24, 1981221 Va. 1059

The court affirmed the physician's conviction for unlawfully performing a second-trimester abortion outside a licensed hospital. It held that the indictment adequately alleged the offense, the evidence sufficiently established that the saline injection destroyed the fetus, and the requested discovery was not…