State v. Dean

In this appeal on questions of law from a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of Clermont County, this court is called upon to pass upon assigned errors alleged to have occurred in the trial and sentence of the defendant on an indictment charging that she did ‘ ‘ willfully, purposely, and by means of poison kill and murder one Hawkins Dean, by then and there knowingly, purposely, and unlawfully administering, and causing to be administered to the said Hawkins Dean, a large quantity of a certain deadly poison, called arsenic trioxide, with the intent willfully, purposely, and by means of…