Runnels v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Nacogdoches. Tried below before Hon. Tom C. Davis. Appeal from a conviction of mingling a noxious potion with a certain drink, with intent to kill or injure persons to the grand jurors unknown; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
HENDEBSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of mingling a noxious potion with a certain drink, with intent to kill or injure persons to the grand jurors unknown. His punishment was fixed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.
Appellant contends there is no law sufficiently defining this offense. The prosecution was brought under article 647, Penal Code, which says: “If any person shall mingle or cause to be mingled any other noxious potion or substance with any drink, food or medicine, with intent to kill or injure any other person, or shall willfully poison any spring, * * * he shall be…
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