State v. Smith
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk District Court. — Hon. S. F. Balliet, Judge. The defendant was accused of the crime of murder in the first degree, was tried by jury, found guilty, and adjudged to be imprisoned in the state penitentiary at Anamosa during the term of her natural life. From that judgment she appeals. —
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
— The indictment charges that on the twenty-fourth day of April, 1894, the defendant committed the crime of murder in the first degree, by wilfully, and with premeditation and malice aforethought, administering to Michael Smith a deadly poison, which caused his death on the next day. Michael Smith was the husband of the defendant. About one year preceding his death, after he had retired for the night, and while alone with the defendant in his bedroom, he received a gunshot wound, which made him wholly blind. The wound appeared to have been made by a bullet, which entered his head just back of…
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