Monica and her husband Monroe own the Double M Arms, a successful luxury hotel. Monica has been having an affair for several years with Gilbert, the hotel's beverage manager. Tired of tiptoeing around Monroe, Monica and Gilbert hatch a plan to remove Monroe from the picture permanently. However, Monica and Gilbert find the prospect of "getting their hands dirty" distasteful. Monica and Gilbert are aware that Monroe, a creature of habit, goes to the lounge each evening for his daily martini. Consequently, they decide to approach Velvet, a cocktail waitress who is employed in the hotel's lounge. They ask her if she will spike one of Monroe's nightly martinis with hemlock. In exchange, and assuming the hemlock effectively poisons Monroe, Velvet will be appointed as the hotel's new beverage manager and receive a $20,000 per year raise in salary. Velvet agrees to poison Monroe. The following evening, Monroe enters the lounge and orders his martini. Velvet surreptitiously adds the poison and brings the drink to his table. Just as she places the drink on the table, Monroe notices that Lucretia, an elderly widow who is one of the hotel's permanent residents, has entered the lounge alone. He asks Lucretia if she would like to join him. As she sits down, he slides his untouched martini over to Lucretia and offers it to her. Lucretia drinks the martini and dies shortly thereafter. Monica and Gilbert should be convicted of