Rice v. State

Rice was indicted for manslaughter in killing Mary Keithley. The indictment contained four counts. The first charged that Rice, claiming to be a physician, on the 1st of February, 1842, at the county of St. Charles, with force and arms, ift and upon the body of Mary Keithley, then and there feloniously, ignorantly, and unskilfully did administer improper medicines, which caused the death of the said Mary Keithley, contrary to the form, &c. The second charged, that Rice, acting as a physician, the body of the said Mary Keithley, feloniously and ignorantly, and with culpable negligence, did…