Hicks v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of Pulaski county, rendered March 26, 1889, affirming a judgment of county court of said county, rendered February 13, 1889, whereby George W. Hicks, the plaintiff in error, was sentenced, in accordance with the verdict of the jury, to confinement in the penitentiary for a term of four'years for an attempt to administer poison to one James Anderson.
1Opinion of the Court
Le,avis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The indictment charges, in substance, that George W. Hicks (the plaintiff in error here) and Haney Price, feloniously intending to kill the said James Anderson, did attempt to administer to him a quantity of poison, called strychnine, by soliciting one Laura Long, for a promised reward, to administer the same; and that they, in furtherance of their design to kill as aforesaid, did deliver to the said Laura Long a quantity of the said poison, to be by lief put into the coffee of the- said Anderson, who at the time was boarding with her, etc. It is…
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