Every person who shall be convicted of having administered, or having caused or procured to be administered, any poison to any human being with intent to kill such human being, whereof death shall not ensue, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term not less than ten years.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 3 (34); 1857, ch 64, art. 213, 1871; § 2669; 1880, § 2936; 1892, § 1254; 1906, § 1330; Hemingway's 1917, § 1063; 1930, § 1094; 1942, § 2327.
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