State v. Holden

SADLER, Justice.

The defendant by information was charged with mingling poison, to-wit, arsenic, with food with intent to injure and kill one Ernest Langenegger, contrary to the provisions of 1929 Comp., § 35-603. The jury returned a verdict of guilty at the' conclusion of the trial and the court imposed on defendant the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment from which he appeals.

The evidence connecting defendant with the crime is entirely circumstantial and his principal assignment of error is that the verdict is without substantial support in the evidence. The fact that Ernest Langenegger…