People v. Adams
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco and from an order denying a new trial. [William P. Lawlor, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMcFARLAND, J.
The defendant was convicted of murder, the charge being that she murdered her infant child, a boy a little over two years old; and the prosecution contends that there was sufficient evidence to warrant the jury in finding that she willfully and feloniously caused the death of the child by giving it carbolic acid. Defendant contends that the child took the poison accidentally, and without her knowledge. She appeals from the judgment and from an order denying her motion for a new trial.
The evidence on which the appellant was convicted was entirely circumstantial, and was undoubtedly…
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