Q. Wherein the appearances are particularly described?
A. They are not particularly described, there is something said about the stomach and bowels.
Q. For what purpose then did you attend there?
A. I did not know that it was necessary before a coroner’s jury to enter into the particulars; I was quite a novice in the business.
Q. Do you mean a novice in the mode of dissection.
A. No, in the business before a coroner.
Q. Did the account you set your name to, contain a true description of the appearances that met your eye upon the occasion?
A. So far as they went it did.
Q. Did you ever hear or know of any poison whatever occasioning any immediate external appearances on the human body?
A. No, no immediate external appearances in the case of vegetable poisons, except what I have heard, but they have not fallen under my own knowledge.