Leseney v. State

In this case plaintiff in error, Oma Leseney, was tried for murder; it being charged that she, in connection with others, poisoned her former husband, Joseph H. Howard, by willfully, knowingly, purposely, and maliciously administering arsenic. There was no allegation in the indictment, or attempt, either on the part of the state or the plaintiff in error, to prove that arsenic was negligently or recklessly administered by the plaintiff in error to the deceased. But the state’s theory was that the poison was willfully and purposely administered. And the theory of the plaintiff in error was…