State v. Sanford

ZINN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment and sentence of death imposed, upon John H. Sanford, the .appellant. He was charged with the crime oí having" murdered’ his wife, Hallie B. Sanford, by administering her poison, arsenic, in a cup of coffee on the 14th day of July, 1938, and that she died as the result thereof on the 23rd day of July, 1938.

The facts and legal proposition pertinent to the decisive issue raised by the appellant, and the only one which needs to be considered in view of the result, are as follows:

On July 14, 1938, appellant arose at between 5 and 5:30 in the morning,…