Mr. Wilmer. Do you mean upon the human body, or upon brutes?
Mr. Wheeler. Upon both.
A. It has in four instances been fatal in the human body; I do not know it of my own knowledge, but from my reading.
Q. Have you any doubt of its being fatal?
A. Not the least in the world.
Q. Now do you apprehend the quantity contained in that bottle is sufficient to take away life?
A. I imagine one bottle of that size full of laurel-water, would be sufficient to kill in half an hour’s time any man in this court.
Mr. Bradford Wilmer. Cross-examined by Mr. Green.
Q. Were there any symptoms in this case peculiarly different from the symptoms attending a case of epilepsy or apoplexy?
A. The appearance of the body in the putrid state in which it was when I had an opportunity of observing it, could give me no information to form an opinion upon respecting the cause of the death.