Commonwealth v. Thompson

At the beginning of the term, the prisoner, Thompson¿ was indicted for the-wilful murder of Ezra Lovett, jun.. by giving him a poison called Lobelia on the 9th day of January last, of which he died on the next day.—On the 20th day of December, at an adjournment of this term, *313the prisoner was tried for this offence, before the chief justice, and the judges Scwall and Parker.

On the trial it appeared in evidence, that the prisoner, some time in the preceding December, came into Beverly, where the deceased then lived, announced himself as a physician, and professed an ability to cure all fevers,…