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HOUSTON - Charges have been dropped against a Texas woman who was accused of giving her husband a sherry enema that killed him.
Tammy Jean Warner had been indicted for negligent homicide in the May 2004 death of Michael Warner, 58, but the Brazoria County District Attorney's office said the charge was dropped a month ago for lack of evidence.
The Houston Chronicle said Warner, 45, had been scheduled to go to court next week for a trial that had been reset six times.
At the time of Warner's indictment in 2005, police told the Chronicle the woman had given her husband two large bottles of sherry, which raised his blood alcohol level to 0.47 per cent, or nearly six times the level considered legally drunk in Texas.
Warner admitted administering the enema but denied she caused the death of her husband, who was a machine shop operator. The incident occurred at their home in Lake Jackson, near Houston.
She told the newspaper her husband was addicted to enemas and often used alcohol in that manner. Police said Warner had a throat ailment that left him unable to drink the sherry.
- REUTERS
