State v. Lucear

OPINION

By HURD, J:

On Sunday, October 14, 1951, the defendant, Marvin Lucear, purchased at a local drugstore two forms of rat poison, — one a white powder which was odorless, the other a paste which carried an order. He hid the poison behind the stove in the kitchen of his home at 9910 Pierpoint Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, where he resided with his wife, Ocie Mae. On the following Tuesday, October 16, 1951, he placed a quantity of the odorless white powder in a bottle of his wife’s medicine, a white liquid, which he had previously purchased with other medicine on October 12, 1951, on the…