Direct evidence will be given to you to establish certain facts, and you will be asked from those facts to draw certain conclusions. It will be for you, gentlemen, to determine whether the direct evidence roves the facts alleged by the witnesses.
pon this point T donot anticipate that there will be much conflict or that you will have any great difficulty in arriving ata conclusion.' Your difficulty will be in considering those facts as a foundation for the conclusions you will be asked to draw. Direct evidence will be given of the death Of the deceased, of the finding of arsenic in his body and other circumstances from which you will be asked to infer that he died of arsenic. Direct evidence will not
of be given of the fact of the administering arsenic by the prisoner. It is very seldom indeed that there are any witnesses:
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