Vannatta v. State

The information by the district attorney charges, that on or about the 15th day of April, 1868, at, &c., one John W. Vannatta did then and there, unlawfully aud feloniously, with intent then and there to injure and kill America Horn and six others named, “mingle and mix a certain deadly poison, known as arsenic, in quantities sufficiently large to produce death, with water, with which said ¡arsenic was so mingled would then and there be drank by .■said persons named and taken into their stomachs, and that ¡said persons would be thereby and therefrom poisoned and [killed, as he verily…