State v. Johnston
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Blake, J., entered October 27, 191S, upon a trial and conviction of murder.
1Opinion of the CourtEllis, J.
The defendant was charged with the crime of murder in first degree, which it is alleged she committed on April 29, 1913, in Spokane county, by then and there administering to her son, Raymond O. Johnston, strychnine, with premeditation to compass his death.
The cause came on for trial on June 19, 1913. On June 26, 1913, the jury returned a verdict finding the defendant guilty as charged in the information. The defendant moved for a new trial, and also moved in arrest of judgment. Both of these motions were overruled. From the judgment of conviction and sentence to confinement at hard labor in…
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