Asphyxia

In Medical Jurisprudence. Suspended animation and death produced by non-conversion of the venous blood of the lungs into arterial. by breathing mepbitic gas; by suspension or strangulation. In a legal point of view, it is always proper to ascertain whether the person who has thus been deprived of his 6enses is the victim of another, whether the injury has been caused by accident, or whether it is the act of the sufferer himself.

See 1 Hamilton, Leg. Med. 113, 120; 1 Wh. & St. Med. Jur. 534; Death. ASPORTATION (Lat asportotto).

The act of carrying a thing away; the removing a thing from one place to another. The carrying away of a chattel which one Is accused of stealing.

See Larceny.