People v. Doyle
Michigan Supreme Court
Exceptions certified from the Recorder’s Court of the city of Detroit. Virginia Doyle was charged on the information before the Recorder’s Court of the city of Detroit, with the offense of mingling poison (arsenic) with port wine, on the 23 d day of February, A. D. 1870, with intent to kill one Catherine DeBaptiste. She was convicted, and a bill of exceptions settled and certified to this Court, under the statute.
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Exceptions certified from the Recorder’s Court of the city of Detroit. Virginia Doyle was charged on the information before the Recorder’s Court of the city of Detroit, with the offense of mingling poison (arsenic) with port wine, on the 23 d day of February, A. D. 1870, with intent to kill one Catherine DeBaptiste. She was convicted, and a bill of exceptions settled and certified to this Court, under the statute. Upon the trial, one George Taliaffero was called as a witness, and he having given evidence tending to show that on the 23d day of February, A. D. 1870, the defendant had mingled…
1Opinion of the CourtGraves, J.
The defendant was tried in the Recorder’s Court of Detroit upon an information charging her with having on the 23d day of February, 1870, mingled poison with wine Avith intent to kill one Catherine DeBaptiste. The jury having returned a verdict oí guilty against the defendant, she alleged exceptions, which being allowed, have been duly certified to this Court before judgment. The case presents *226but two questions, and they arise upon the admission of certain evidence against the objection of defendant.
One George Taliaffero, a grandson of Mrs. DeBaptiste, having given evidence on the part of the…
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