State v. Sharbino

FOURNET, Justice.

The defendants, Gladys Sharbino and Edith Moreau Phipps, were convicted of and sentenced for the crime of manslaughter on an indictment charging them jointly with the murder of Frank Sharbino, husband of Gladys and uncle of the other defendant, and they have appealed.

We were not favored with an oral argument or a brief in behalf of the defendants. A review of the record, however, reveals that the defendant Edith Moreau Phipps, on the morning of May 25, 1939, purchased one-eighth of an once of strychnine for the purpose, as written on the poison register kept by the druggist…