The other caustic alkalies may also destroy life by producing inflammation of the glottis, which consequently may be found thus occluded after death.
In some cases, when small doses have been administered for many days in succession, with the intent to destroy life, the symptoms have been masked by other substances.
Other instances have also occurred where the liquor ammoniae has either been taken in mistake for the aromatic spirit of ammoniae, or purposely, to destroy life.
Any substance which can injure the health or destroy life is regarded as a poison, if given with the intent to do mischief.
There are but few poisons which destroy life in a few minutes.
Although this has been treated as an idle tale, yet two poisons, aconite and arsenic, were at least well known; either of these could have been in the way mentioned introduced in sufficient quantity into food to destroy life.
Taylor as to the manner in which strychnia acts upon the human frame, and I am of opinion that it may be taken, either by accident or design, sufficient to destroy life, and no trace of it be found after death.
In his opinion ‘seventeen minims’ was the smallest dose that would destroy life.
And remember this, that if you decide that he administered that morphine, your verdict must be murder in the first degree, for having denied that he gave the drug at all, he cannot claim now that he gave it with no intention to destroy life.
But they must prove even more than that, for they must show that it was given with intent to destroy life.
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