Idaho Code
Idaho Code § 18-5501 (2026)
Poisoning food, medicine or wells.
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Poisoning food, medicine or wells.
Every person who wilfully mingles any poison with any food, drink or medicine, with intent that the same shall be taken by any human being, to his injury, and every person who wilfully poisons any spring, well, or reservoir of water, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for a term of not less than one (1) nor more than ten (10) years.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1989–2016 · leading case: State v. Daniel Jensen, 385 P.3d 5 (Idaho Ct. App. 2016).
State v. Daniel Jensen, 385 P.3d 5 (Idaho Ct. App. 2016). “GRATTON, Judge Daniel Jensen appeals from his judgment of conviction for poisoning food, medicine, or wells, a felony under Idaho Code § 18-5501 . Jensen was originally charged with attempted first degree murder for putting poison in his mother’s coffee.”
State v. Weaver, 382 S.E.2d 327 (W. Va. 1989). “Penal Code § 347; Idaho Code § 18-5501 ; Mass.Gen.Laws Ann.”
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