“I didn't die, and she got a slap on the wrist,“ is a local man's reaction to his wife getting probation after trying to poison him.

On Monday, Mary Susan Brooks, 61, who had addresses in both Prosperity and Union when she was arrested last February, was sentenced to five years in prison; suspended to three years probation. This was after pleading guilty to administering poison to her husband of four years, Mark Hanners. The couple owned Marx Marina together

Brooks entered a “no contest“ plea to administering poison in the case. In addition to not contesting the charges, Brooks also did not negotiate a plea, leaving her sentence up to Circuit Judge Mark Hayes.

“To the best of my knowledge this was a non-negotiated plea. The victim asked for active jail time and this office supported the victim,“ said Sheriff Lee Foster. “The judge made the decision to pronounce the sentence. It is the judge's decision and we have to accept his judgment.“

But for Hanners that is a hard pill to swallow after Brooks crushed pills and put them in his drinks at the couple's business.

Brooks also asked others working at the bar to help her poison her husband.

But Brooks' attorney, Andrew Johnston, said Brooks only put medicine prescribed to her in her husband's drinks and that it was not strong enough to harm him.

“This was an appropriate disposition of the case