Smith v. State

The plaintiff in error was indicted for poisoning her husband, convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to death. .She appealed in error.

The case is one of circumstantial evidence, and, there being evidence tending to show that the prisoner bought strychnia on the previous day to that of her husband’s death, and that the husband exhibited some of the symptoms usually aceom-*429partying death, by that poison, the defense undertook to prove that the health of the husband was impaired, and that he was in the habit of having fits or spasms similar to. those preceding his demise.…