People v. Haber

The defendant is a married woman, twenty-two years of age, of Polish descent. She and her husband conducted a hotel at Lockport, N. Y. During the summer of 1926 her husband *151went to Europe on a visit, and left the defendant in charge of the hotel. She employed a bartender, and it is admitted that intoxicating liquor was sold at the bar. The indictment charges that she purchased of a man named Frey a quantity of wood alcohol and willfully and feloniously sold some of it to Earl Russell, and that he drank it, thereby causing his death. Upon conviction she was sentenced for a term of not less…