Wrather v. State

Mr. Justice. Chambliss

delivered the opinion -of the Court.

Plaintiff in error appeals from a conviction of murder by poison of her son, Enoch B. Wrather, Jr., twenty-four years of age, with a prison sentence of ninety-nine years. It is conceded that the deceased died from arsenic poisoning. The question presented is whether or not the jury was justified in finding that the poison was administered feloniously and if so by his mother, a woman forty-nine years of age, in whose home and that of his father the deceased resided and where he died on the 6th day of September, 1939. A theory apparently…