Note 51 — ABORTION AND INFANTICIDE.

The law of Scotland was yet more severe; the mere fact of concealing the pregnancy, whether the death of the child were proved or not, was a capital felony. See 1 Hume’s Com. 287, and 1 Burnet’s Crim. Law, tit. Child-murder, and many cases there cited. The child of Margaret Dickson, to whose case we have alluded, vol. ii, p. 91, was legitimate.