People v. Millard

Respondent was convicted in Ionia county of the murder of his wife by poison, on May 9, 1882. The information sets out that the death was caused by a series of acts of administering arsenic with her medicine, beginning April 25, 1882, and continuing till her death. The body was taken up by the coroner on the 22d day of August thereafter, when a partial examination was had by local physicians, and the stomach and part of the rectum were removed and placed in one jar, and part of the liver and of one kidney placed in another jar, and these jars sent to Dr. Prescott, at the University, to be…