Hasenfuss v. State

Appellant was charged by indictment with having committed the crime of murder in the first degree, by killing one Carl Westenfield by the means of the administration of arsenical poison: On her plea of not guilty she was tried by a jury, and the latter by their verdict found her 'guilty of voluntary manslaughter, and further found, in accordance with ¡the indeterminate sentence statute, that she was a woman of the age of forty-eight years. Some *247four days after the return of this verdict :and -the discharge of the jury appellant moved the court to discharge- her for the'following reasons: (-1)…