Excerpt from The Criminal Law Journal of India, 1906, Vol. 3: A Fortnightly Legal Publication, Containing Full Reports of All Reported Criminal Cases of the High Courts and Chief Courts, &C., In India

In the reports of the Supreme Court of Ohio, we find an interesting and able opinion, upon the subject of the liabilitv of an abettor of suicide (k). In that case. One Blackburn, and a woman named Lowell, mutually agreed to commit suicide. The defendant mixed strychnine with wine, and in pursuance of the agreement the woman drank the mixture. There was some evidence tending to show that the defendant, by threats, forced the wom 111 to take the poison. The defendant was found guilty in the lower mrt, and appealed, contending that, as suicide was not punishable, there be no conviction as an accessory. To this contention the (fonrt said Purposely and maliciously to kill a human being by ad ministering to him or her poison, is declared by the law to be murder, ir respective of the wishes or the condition of the party to whom the poison is administered. The fact that the guilty party intends also to take his own life, and that the administration of the poison is in pursuance of an agreement that both will commit suicide, does not, in a legal sense, vary the case. If the prisoner furnished the poison to the deceased for the purpose and with the intent that she should with it commit suicide, and she accordingly took and used it for that purpose or if he did not furnish the poison. But was present at the taking thereof by the deceased, partici pating, by persnation, force, threats, or otherwise, in the taking thereof, or the introduction of it into her stomach or body then, in either of the cases supposed, be administered the poison to her, within the meaning of the stitare. The judgment of conviction of the lower Court was accord ingly affirmed.

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