Steele v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Cass' County, of placing poison in water, with intent to injure and kill J. M. McCormick, and his punishment fixed at four years confinement in the penitentiary.

McCormick was the station-agent at the little town of Avinger, a station on the M., K. & T. Railway, not very far from Jefferson. Appellant, J. B. Steele, was helper at said station, and his wife, Mrs. Steele, was working in a railroad office at Jefferson. There seems to have been in the breast of Mrs. Steele, a desire to be a station master herself, and to hold down…