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Mr. Wrightson (who was highly compHmented by Lord Campbell for the way in which he gave his evidence) also said that he should expect to find strychnia if it were present, and that he had found it in the tissues of an animal poisoned by it. Here, no doubt, there was a considerable conflict of evi- dence upon a point of which it was very difficult for un- scientific persons to pretend to have any opinion. The controversy, however, was foreign to the merits of the case, inasmuch as the evidence g...iven for the prisoner tended to prove not that there was no strychnia in Cook's body, but that Dr. Taylor ought to have found it if there was. In other words, it was relevant not so much to the guilt or innocence of the prisoner, as to the question whether Mr. Nunneley and Mr. Herapath were or were not better analytical chemists than Dr. Taylor. The evidence could not even be considered relevant as shaking Dr. Taylor's credit, for no part of the case rested on his evidence except the discovery of the anti- mony, as to which he was corroborated by Mr.
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