State v. Hepperman

Emma Lee Snyder Hepperman was convicted of poisoning her husband and sentenced to life imprisonment.

The State's evidence was that on March 3, 1940, Anthony (Tony) Hepperman was a widowed farmer, fifty-one years of age, living about two and one-half miles from Wentzville in St. Charles County. His family consisted of a daughter, Ethel, eleven years of age, and a son, Herbert, twenty-three, who left home shortly after his marriage to Emma. A daughter, Isabel Eagan, lived on a farm a short distance away. Except for a sore toe resulting from frost bite many years before Tony Hepperman was in good…