State v. Smith
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polh District Court. — Hon. W. D. Conrad, J udge. Defendant is accused of tbe crime of tbe murder of her busband by tbe administration of poison. Two trials bave been bad, tbe first resulting in a verdict of guilty, upon which she was sentenced to imprisonment for life, and tbe second, in a like verdict and sentence. Appeal was taken to this court from tbe first conviction, and tbe case was reversed. See 102 Iowa, 656. This appeal is from tbe second conviction.—
1Opinion of the Court
Deemer, O. J.
Tbe facts are quite fully stated in tbe opinion filed on tbe first appeal, and need not be repeated *703here, except in so far as it may be necessary to an understanding of the matters decided.
I. The trial court instructed the jury, in effect, that if defendant gave, or was a party to the giving of, a deadly poison to Michael Smith, and if she did so knowingly and feloniously, then the jury 'might find her guilty. It further charged that if some person or persons other than defendant gave the poison, and if defendant and such other person or persons conspired and agreed together to…
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