State v. Wagner

The defendant was indicted for murder in the first degree, and was convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for ten years.

He is charged in the indictment with having at divers times prior to and on the 24th day of November, 1881, willfully, deliberately, premeditatedly and of his malice aforethought, administered a certain poison called laudanum to one Norman J. Bauder, designing and intending him, the said Bauder, thereby to kill and murder, from the effects of *645which said poison said Bauder died on the 24th day of November, 1881. There was…