State v. Glover
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Aldrch, J., Abbeville, June, 1887. The judge in this case was requested to make the charges, which, upon his refusal, are assigned as error in the first three exceptions.
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Before Aldrch, J., Abbeville, June, 1887. The judge in this case was requested to make the charges, which, upon his refusal, are assigned as error in the first three exceptions. His general charge was as follows: The first question that you will consider when you go into the room is: Did the defendant, this little girl, give that child Blanche, the daughter of Mrs. Clinkscales, that assafoetida ? If you determine that in the affirmative, your next question will be, with what intent did she administer the drug ? I do not know, and there is no proof before you, whether assafoetida is a poison…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Me. Justice MoIver.
The indictment under which this defendant was convicted contained two counts, one charging that the defendant, “in and upon Blanche Clinkscales, an infant, then and there being, did make an assault, and her, the said Blanche Clinkscales, did force to drink a certain deleterious and injurious drug, to wit, tincture of assafoetida, thereby producing great and dangerous sickness of the said Blanche Clinkscales, with intent, her, the said Blanche Clinkscales, then and there feloniously, wilfully, and of her malice aforethought to kill…
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